Cordaitina donetziana
No picture of Cordaitina donetziana was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cordaitina donetziana firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Cordaitina donetziana 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
13 occurrences- Permian100%
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
7 formations
- Zechstein Limestone Formation · Werra Group4
- Upper Anhydrite Formation · Werra Group3
- Top Terrigenous Series Formation2
- Lower Anhydrate Formation · Werra Group1
- Platy Dolomite Formation · Strassfort Group1
- Main Anhydrite Formation · Leine Group1
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The named rock units Cordaitina donetziana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cordaitina donetziana and its relatives
PermianWhere Cordaitina donetziana and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Cordaitina sp.13 sites
- Cycadopites13 sites
- Klausipollenites13 sites
- Limitisporites13 sites
- Lueckisporites13 sites
- Lunatisporites13 sites
- Nuskoisporites13 sites
- Perisaccus sp.13 sites
- Platysaccus13 sites
- Pollenites13 sites
- Jugasporites delasaucei12 sites
- Potonieisporites12 sites
- Sporites12 sites
- Triadispora12 sites
- Illenites unicus11 sites
- Cordaitina uralensis10 sites
- Illenites sp.10 sites
- Perisaccus granulatus10 sites
- Protohaploxypinus10 sites
- Falcisporites9 sites
- Gardenasporites sp.9 sites
- Vittatina9 sites
- Calamaspora plicata8 sites
- Calamaspora sp.8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Cordaitina donetziana, 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
1 referenceEach of the 13 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cordaitina donetziana was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cordaitina donetziana firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Cordaitina donetziana 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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What may have been alongside itFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.