Dichotomopteris
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FilicalesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 131 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 143.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
32 occurrences of Dichotomopteris 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
32 occurrencesThese 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
13 formations
- Raniganj Formation9
- Burngrove Formation · Blackwater Group4
- Black Alley Shale Formation · Back Creek Group3
- Pachwara Formation3
- Rangal Coal Measures Formation · Blackwater Group2
- MacMillan Formation · Back Creek Group1
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The named rock units Dichotomopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dichotomopteris and its relatives
PermianWhere Dichotomopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
257 taxa- Paracalamites14 sites
- Samaropsis12 sites
- Glossopteris10 sites
- Neomariopteris lobifolia10 sites
- Neomariopteris8 sites
- Vertebraria8 sites
- Dadoxylon7 sites
- Phyllotheca australis7 sites
- Vertebraria indica7 sites
- Phyllotheca6 sites
- Dictyopteridium5 sites
- Plumsteadia5 sites
- Schizoneura5 sites
- Araucarioxylon4 sites
- Gangamopteris4 sites
- Asansolia phegopteroides3 sites
- Cordaites3 sites
- Neomariopteris hughesi3 sites
- Schizoneura gondwanensis3 sites
- Scutum3 sites
- Trizygia3 sites
- Asansolia2 sites
- Cladophlebis kathiawarensis2 sites
- Gangamopteris whittiana2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Dichotomopteris, 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
7 references- Late Permian Plant Megafossils from the Bowen Basin, Queensland, Australia: Part 19
- Provincialism in Gondwana floras6
- Late Permian plant megafossils from the Bowen Basin, Queensland, Australia: Part 35
- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 2: Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Megafossils5
- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants5
- Zonacion del Permico continental de Argentina sobre la base de sus plantas fosiles1
- On a mixed Cathaysia and Gondwana flora from SE. Anatolia (Turkey)1
Each of the 32 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
Media content0
No picture of Dichotomopteris 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 Dichotomopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dichotomopteris 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 itFilicales through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Maithy 1974