Distichophytum

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 20 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 19 of 20 occurrencesDevonian427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 5 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 8 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 4 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419.62 Mya410.62 Mya427.4 Mya392.8 Mya

20 occurrences of Distichophytum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

20 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

4 formations

Bathurst Island — 75.82°N, 98.41°WBathurst Island — 75.00°N, 98.00°WBathurst Island — 76.19°N, 98.23°WBathurst Island — 76.00°N, 98.00°WBathurst Island — 75.84°N, 98.62°WBathurst Island beds — 75.80°N, 98.40°WStuart Bay ""beds"" — 75.82°N, 98.40°WBeartooth Butte — 44.95°N, 109.62°W

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The named rock units Distichophytum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Distichophytum and its relatives

Devonian

Where Distichophytum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

44 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Distichophytum, 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

2 references

Each of the 20 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Distichophytum 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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What may have been alongside itPsilophytales through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Maegdefrau 1938