Gomphostrobus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PinalesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 301.4 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
26 occurrences of Gomphostrobus 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
26 occurrences- Carboniferous18%
- Permian82%
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
14 formations
- Belle Plains Formation2
- Lueders Formation2
- Wild Cow Formation · Madera Group1
- Supai Formation1
- Waggoner Ranch Formation · Albany Group1
- Wichita Formation1
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The named rock units Gomphostrobus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gomphostrobus and its relatives
PermianWhere Gomphostrobus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
135 taxa- Odontopteris17 sites
- Annularia16 sites
- Pecopteris16 sites
- Callipteris15 sites
- Walchia14 sites
- Neuropteris12 sites
- Callipteris conferta11 sites
- Cordaites11 sites
- Ernestiodendron filiciforme11 sites
- Taeniopteris11 sites
- Calamites8 sites
- Lebachia7 sites
- Asterophyllites6 sites
- Lebachia piniformis6 sites
- Sigillaria6 sites
- Sphenophyllum6 sites
- Sphenopteris6 sites
- Samaropsis5 sites
- Aphlebia4 sites
- Araucarites4 sites
- Calamostachys4 sites
- Sigillariostrobus4 sites
- Cordaianthus3 sites
- Cyclopteris3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Gomphostrobus, 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
13 references- Contribution a l'etude des flores Autuno-Stephaniennes8
- The characters of the fossil plant Gigantopteris Schenk and its occurrence in North America3
- Aspects of Permian palaeobotany and palynology. IX. Conifer-dominated Rotliegend floras from the Saar-Nahe Basin (?Late Carboniferous-Early Permian; SW-Germany) with special reference to the reproductive biology of early conifers2
- Makrofloren aus dem Unterrotliegenden (Unterperm) von Alsenz bei Bad Kreuznach/Rheinland Pfalz2
- Notes on Upper Paleozoic plants of central New Mexico2
- Tinsleya, a new genus of seed-bearing callipterid plants from the Permian of north-central Texas2
- Early Virgilian plant megafossils from the Kinney Brick Company Quarry, Manzanita Mountains, New Mexico1
- Plant megafossils from the Hartford Limestone (Virgilian-Upper Pennsylvanian) near Hamilton, Kansas1
- Upper Pennsylvanian compression floras of the 7-11 Mine, Columbiana County, northeastern Ohio1
- A Late Paleozoic Flora from Promontory Butte in Central Arizona1
- Fossil flora of the Mogollon Rim, central Arizona1
- Upper Paleozoic floral zones and floral provinces of the United States1
Each of the 26 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Gomphostrobus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Gomphostrobus 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 itPinales through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marion 1890