Glossopteris angustifolia

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 41 occurrencesPermian — about 37 of 41 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 3 of 41 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 41 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 41 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 41 occurrences301–297 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences297–294 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences291–287 Mya — about 2 occurrences287–284 Mya — about 2 occurrences284–281 Mya — about 2 occurrences281–277 Mya — about 2 occurrences277–274 Mya — about 2 occurrences274–270 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences270–267 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences267–264 Mya — about 3 occurrences264–260 Mya — about 2 occurrences260–257 Mya — about 7 occurrences257–254 Mya — about 8 occurrences254–250 Mya — about 5 occurrences250–247 Mya — about 2 occurrences240–237 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–203 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences203–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274.4 Mya237 Mya301 Mya199 Mya

41 occurrences of Glossopteris angustifolia 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

41 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

12 formations

Raniganj — 23.90°N, 87.00°ERaniganj — 23.60°N, 83.40°ERaniganj — 23.80°N, 85.20°ERaniganj — 23.70°N, 86.30°ERaniganj — 23.80°N, 85.70°EPachwara — 24.53°N, 87.49°EPachwara — 24.65°N, 87.70°EPachwara — 24.56°N, 87.48°EKamthi — 21.00°N, 84.71°EKamthi — 19.74°N, 79.56°EGharif — 22.00°N, 58.00°EDamuda Series — 22.47°N, 78.43°EDubrajpur — 24.32°N, 87.27°EParsora — 23.42°N, 81.10°EPanchet — 23.83°N, 83.28°EMaitur — 23.71°N, 86.93°EMamal — 34.01°N, 75.31°EBhareli — 27.21°N, 92.67°EBarakar — 24.53°N, 87.47°E

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The named rock units Glossopteris angustifolia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glossopteris angustifolia and its relatives

Permian

Where Glossopteris angustifolia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

386 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Glossopteris angustifolia, 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

Each of the 41 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 content1

Picture of Glossopteris angustifolia

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Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1830