Desmiophyllum

No picture of Desmiophyllum 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 Desmiophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 170 million years on record.

The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 293.52 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Permian — about 4 of 170 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 170 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 170 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 65 of 170 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 25 of 170 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 38 of 170 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 14 of 170 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 16 of 170 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 170 occurrences298–291 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences291–284 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences284–277 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences263–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–249 Mya — about 2 occurrences249–242 Mya — about 1 occurrence242–235 Mya — about 10 occurrences235–228 Mya — about 28 occurrences228–221 Mya — about 8 occurrences221–214 Mya — about 5 occurrences214–208 Mya — about 5 occurrences208–201 Mya — about 12 occurrences201–194 Mya — about 7 occurrences194–187 Mya — about 7 occurrences187–180 Mya — about 6 occurrences180–173 Mya — about 10 occurrences173–166 Mya — about 21 occurrences166–159 Mya — about 13 occurrences159–152 Mya — about 4 occurrences152–145 Mya — about 6 occurrences145–138 Mya — about 3 occurrences138–131 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences131–125 Mya — about 2 occurrences125–118 Mya — about 3 occurrences118–111 Mya — about 4 occurrences111–104 Mya — about 4 occurrences104–97 Mya — about 4 occurrences97–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences283.3 Mya113.2 Mya298 Mya90 Mya

170 occurrences of Desmiophyllum on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

170 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

75 formations

Santa Clara — 28.57°N, 110.21°WSanta Clara — 28.56°N, 109.34°WSanta Clara — 28.58°N, 109.67°WSanta Clara — 28.55°N, 109.35°WSanta Clara — 28.50°N, 109.50°WSanta Clara — 28.57°N, 109.21°WSanta Clara — 28.58°N, 109.63°WCorwin — 68.82°N, 162.18°WCorwin — 69.33°N, 162.56°WCorwin — 69.34°N, 162.41°WCorwin — 69.50°N, 162.72°WCorwin — 69.50°N, 162.77°WNovorayskaya Suite — 48.80°N, 37.60°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.60°N, 37.40°EGarazhovka — 49.00°N, 38.00°EChijingqiao — 39.90°N, 97.50°EChijingqiao — 39.90°N, 97.70°EZhiluo — 40.30°N, 110.00°EZhiluo — 38.90°N, 105.60°ELower Xiangshan — 32.00°N, 118.80°EDubovka Suite — 49.80°N, 73.10°EAmisan — 36.20°N, 126.80°EBorodino Suite — 55.80°N, 94.90°EBorodino Suite — 55.70°N, 94.70°EKamala Suite — 55.80°N, 94.90°EKamala Suite — 55.70°N, 94.70°EMakarovo Suite — 56.10°N, 89.10°EMakarovo Suite — 56.00°N, 90.40°EItat — 56.30°N, 90.50°ETyumen' Suite — 58.90°N, 81.80°ETyumen' Suite — 57.10°N, 65.40°EMiddle Tanga — 5.10°S, 39.10°ELower Saltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WMine — 56.10°N, 12.85°EPiedra Pintada — 40.10°S, 70.20°WCerro Puntudo Alto — 43.70°S, 69.70°WPaso Flores — 40.50°S, 70.50°WWudanggou — 41.60°N, 108.20°EXiaomeigou — 36.20°N, 98.00°EShaximiao — 30.90°N, 111.80°E

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The named rock units Desmiophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 51 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Desmiophyllum and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Desmiophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

423 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 127 sites for Desmiophyllum, 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

77 references

Each of the 170 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. 65 further references are not listed. 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

Media content0

No picture of Desmiophyllum 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 Desmiophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Desmiophyllum 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. Lesquereux 1878