Compsopteris

No picture of Compsopteris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Compsopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AlethopteridaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 108 occurrencesPermian — about 107 of 108 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 108 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 108 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 108 occurrencesLate Triassic300–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–295 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences293–290 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences288–285 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences283–280 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences276–273 Mya — about 2 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 3 occurrences271–268 Mya — about 3 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 7 occurrences266–263 Mya — about 13 occurrences263–261 Mya — about 17 occurrences261–258 Mya — about 17 occurrences258–256 Mya — about 17 occurrences256–253 Mya — about 16 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 7 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–233 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences231–228 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences228–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290.1 Mya237 Mya300 Mya226 Mya

108 occurrences of Compsopteris on record, most of them in the Permian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

108 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

33 formations

Longtan — 30.80°N, 120.20°ELongtan — 30.80°N, 118.70°ELongtan — 30.80°N, 119.40°ELongtan — 24.70°N, 110.60°ELongtan — 31.30°N, 120.60°ELongtan — 34.00°N, 119.80°ETongzhiyan — 25.10°N, 113.60°ETongzhiyan — 23.40°N, 113.20°ETongzhiyan — 22.20°N, 112.90°ETongzhiyan — 25.20°N, 117.10°ETongzhiyan — 25.80°N, 116.70°ECuipingshan — 24.30°N, 116.10°ECuipingshan — 24.70°N, 116.70°ELoping — 28.20°N, 114.90°ELoping — 28.20°N, 115.80°EWulinshan — 28.70°N, 118.60°EWulinshan — 28.30°N, 117.70°EDong — 25.10°N, 113.60°EDong — 24.80°N, 113.60°EKaishantun — 42.60°N, 129.80°EShahu — 22.20°N, 112.30°EYanqiao — 34.00°N, 119.80°ENoyansomonskaya Suite — 43.40°N, 102.20°EEr-Yaginskaya Suite — 69.60°N, 63.60°ETalung — 23.70°N, 109.32°EToba — 31.30°N, 97.70°EShanxi — 39.90°N, 111.80°ETaiyuan — 37.50°N, 105.20°EGufeng — 30.80°N, 120.20°EUpper Rejuechaka — 33.60°N, 86.80°EXuanwei — 26.30°N, 104.20°EQingouzhi — 43.40°N, 128.20°ETaerlang — 43.30°N, 89.00°EQiupo — 25.00°N, 112.40°EMaoshan — 41.00°N, 118.90°EShentang — 22.20°N, 112.30°EGuye — 39.60°N, 118.30°E

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The named rock units Compsopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 51 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Compsopteris and its relatives

Permian

Where Compsopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

221 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 77 sites for Compsopteris, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

34 references

Each of the 108 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 22 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Compsopteris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Compsopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Compsopteris was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zalessky 1934