Dictyopteridium sporiferum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DictyopteridiumPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Dictyopteridium sporiferum 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
6 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
2 formations
- Kamthi Formation2
- Estcourt Formation · Beaufort Group1
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The named rock units Dictyopteridium sporiferum 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.
Dictyopteridium sporiferum and its relatives
PermianWhere Dictyopteridium sporiferum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Glossopteris3 sites
- Schizoneura gondwanensis3 sites
- Glossopteris angustifolia2 sites
- Glossopteris damudica2 sites
- Noeggerathiopsis2 sites
- Sphenopteris polymorpha2 sites
- Trizygia speciosa2 sites
- Araucarioxylon ningahense1 site
- Asansolia phegopteroides1 site
- Benlightfootia1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Buthelezia mooiensis1 site
- Cyclodendron leslii1 site
- Dictyopteridium flabellatum1 site
- Eoscartarellidae1 site
- Eretmonia hinjridaensis1 site
- Eretmonia ovata1 site
- Eretmonia utkalensis1 site
- Estcourtia vandijkii1 site
- Fetura natalensis1 site
- Glossopteris acuminata1 site
- Glossopteris arberi1 site
- Glossopteris browniana1 site
- Glossopteris communis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Dictyopteridium sporiferum, 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
3 references- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 2: Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Megafossils2
- Several new forms of Glossopteris fructifications from the Beaufort Daptocephalus-Zone (Upper Permian) of Natal, South Africa2
- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants2
Each of the 6 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.
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No picture of Dictyopteridium sporiferum 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 Dictyopteridium sporiferum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dictyopteridium sporiferum 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 itDictyopteridium through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Feistmantel 1881