Cordaitina sp.

No picture of Cordaitina sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cordaitina sp. 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 least 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 306 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 312.8 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 67 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 65 of 67 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 67 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences287–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences263–261 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 6 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 16 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 16 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 15 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 6 occurrences306 Mya259.857 Mya314 Mya251 Mya

67 occurrences of Cordaitina sp. 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

67 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

14 formations

Zechstein Limestone — 50.83°N, 20.67°EUpper Anhydrite — 50.83°N, 20.67°ETop Terrigenous Series — 50.83°N, 20.67°EPlaty Dolomite — 50.83°N, 20.67°ETerrigenious Series — 50.83°N, 20.67°ELower Anhydrate — 50.83°N, 20.67°EMain Anhydrite — 50.83°N, 20.67°ELost Branch — 37.20°N, 95.42°WLost Branch — 37.83°N, 94.98°WCopper Shale — 50.83°N, 20.67°EBasal Conglomerate — 50.83°N, 20.67°EKorpad — 46.15°N, 17.92°ELower Anhydrate A1d — 50.83°N, 20.67°EGrey Pelite — 50.83°N, 20.67°EVal Gardena Sandstone — 46.36°N, 11.41°E

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The named rock units Cordaitina sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cordaitina sp. and its relatives

Permian

Where Cordaitina sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

184 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Cordaitina sp., 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

6 references

Each of the 67 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Cordaitina sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cordaitina sp. 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 sp. was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.