Dolichosperma
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PteridospermophytaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 29 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 330.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Dolichosperma on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
7 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
1 formation
- Garlton Hills Volcanics Formation · Lower Lothian Calciferous Sandstone Measures (Series) Group2
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The named rock units Dolichosperma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dolichosperma and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Dolichosperma and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Lyginorachis5 sites
- Cladoxylon4 sites
- Deltasperma fouldenense3 sites
- Eurystoma3 sites
- Eurystoma angulare3 sites
- Genomosperma3 sites
- Hydrasperma tenuis3 sites
- Lepidodendron3 sites
- Protoclepsydropsis3 sites
- Stamnostoma huttonense3 sites
- Tristichia ovensi3 sites
- Amyelon2 sites
- Bilignea solida2 sites
- Buteoxylon gordonianum2 sites
- cf. Eccroustosperma langtonense2 sites
- cf. Melissiotheca sp.2 sites
- Clepsydropsis antiqua2 sites
- Eosperma oxroadense2 sites
- Gymnospermopsida2 sites
- Hierogramma mysticum2 sites
- Kalymma2 sites
- Lyginorachis papilio2 sites
- Lyrasperma scotica2 sites
- Oxroadia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Dolichosperma, 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
5 references- Distribution of anatomically-preserved floras in the Lower Carboniferous in Western Europe3
- Palaeozoic Palaeobotany of Great Britain1
- A reappraisal of the Dinantian floras at Oxroad Bay, East Lothian, Scotland. 1. Floristics and the development of whole-plant concepts1
- A reappraisal of the Dinantian floras at Oxroad Bay, East Lothian, Scotland. 2. Volcanicity, palaeoenvironments and palaeoecology1
- On the structure of some petioles associated with Rhetinangium (Gordon).1
Each of the 7 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Dolichosperma 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 Dolichosperma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dolichosperma 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 itPteridospermophyta through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Long 1961