Ginkgophyton
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GinkgophytaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 78 million years on record.
The record covers at least 372.15 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 290.1 Mya.
3 occurrences of Ginkgophyton 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
3 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
3 formations
- Delaware River flags Formation · Sonyea Group1
- Schistes noirs Formation · Lower Lukuga Group1
- Karharbari Formation1
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The named rock units Ginkgophyton has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ginkgophyton and its relatives
PermianWhere Ginkgophyton and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
94 taxa- Cyclodendron2 sites
- Gangamopteris2 sites
- Alisporites oblongus1 site
- Arberia1 site
- Barakarites gondwanensis1 site
- Botrychiopsis1 site
- Buriadia1 site
- Cardiocarpum1 site
- Cardiocarpus1 site
- Caulophyllites indica1 site
- Cheirophyllum lacerata1 site
- Cordaicarpus1 site
- Cordaites spatulata1 site
- Cycadites1 site
- Cyclogranisporites1 site
- Endosporites1 site
- Eupunctisporites1 site
- Faunipollenites varius1 site
- Florinites1 site
- Gangamopteris angustifolia1 site
- Gangamopteris clarkeana1 site
- Gangamopteris cyclopteroides1 site
- Gangamopteris gondwanensis1 site
- Gangamopteris hispida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ginkgophyton, 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 Indian Fossil Plants1
- Ginkgophyton (Psygmophyllum) with a Stem of Gymnospermic Structure1
- The Glossopteris flora of the Belgian Congo, with a note on some fossil plants from the Zambesi Basin (Mozambique)1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Ginkgophyton 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 Ginkgophyton, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ginkgophyton 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 itGinkgophyta through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1910