Lepidodendraceae

Lepidodendraceae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 155 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Devonian — about 10 of 487 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 351 of 487 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 125 of 487 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 487 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 487 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 487 occurrencesLate Triassic397–391 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences391–384 Mya — about 2 occurrences384–378 Mya — about 1 occurrence378–371 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences371–365 Mya — about 2 occurrences365–358 Mya — about 5 occurrences358–352 Mya — about 26 occurrences352–345 Mya — about 26 occurrences345–339 Mya — about 30 occurrences339–332 Mya — about 32 occurrences332–326 Mya — about 27 occurrences326–319 Mya — about 33 occurrences319–313 Mya — about 73 occurrences313–306 Mya — about 70 occurrences306–300 Mya — about 28 occurrences300–293 Mya — about 33 occurrences293–287 Mya — about 26 occurrences287–280 Mya — about 19 occurrences280–274 Mya — about 13 occurrences274–267 Mya — about 8 occurrences267–261 Mya — about 9 occurrences261–254 Mya — about 16 occurrences254–248 Mya — about 3 occurrences228–221 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences221–215 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences215–208 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences208–202 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382.31 Mya227.3 Mya397 Mya202 Mya

487 occurrences of Lepidodendraceae 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

487 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

97 formations

Pottsville — 33.82°N, 87.42°WPottsville — 33.00°N, 87.00°WPottsville — 33.81°N, 87.17°WCarbondale — 38.18°N, 87.33°WCarbondale — 41.00°N, 88.00°WCarbondale — 40.00°N, 90.00°WTaiyuan — 39.90°N, 111.80°ETaiyuan — 37.50°N, 105.20°ETaiyuan — 38.20°N, 100.20°ETaiyuan — 41.80°N, 126.50°ETaiyuan — 35.50°N, 110.40°ETaiyuan — 37.50°N, 114.60°ETaiyuan — 40.00°N, 116.20°ETaiyuan — 39.60°N, 111.00°ETaiyuan — 34.70°N, 116.60°ETaiyuan — 38.80°N, 99.60°ETaiyuan — 41.20°N, 123.80°ETaiyuan — 41.60°N, 119.70°ETaiyuan — 38.80°N, 105.60°ETaiyuan — 36.80°N, 118.10°ETaiyuan — 39.40°N, 111.00°EShanxi — 38.00°N, 114.00°EShanxi — 41.80°N, 126.50°EShanxi — 38.80°N, 105.60°EShanxi — 39.40°N, 121.80°EShanxi — 40.70°N, 120.80°EShanxi — 38.80°N, 99.60°EShanxi — 38.50°N, 102.20°EShanxi — 35.70°N, 106.60°EShanxi — 39.40°N, 111.00°EBrazil — 39.13°N, 87.02°WBreathitt — 37.08°N, 83.70°WDrywood — 38.00°N, 93.00°WStellarton — 45.67°N, 62.70°WShelburn — 39.28°N, 87.53°WNew Albany Shale — 37.58°N, 84.80°WNew Albany Shale — 37.38°N, 84.80°WNew Albany Shale — 38.28°N, 85.82°WMospyne — 48.24°N, 39.34°EManning Canyon Shale — 40.28°N, 112.15°WVandever Shale & Rockcastle Sandstone — 34.86°N, 85.43°WLongtan — 30.80°N, 119.40°ELongtan — 27.00°N, 113.30°ELongtan — 31.30°N, 120.60°ELongtan — 26.30°N, 105.90°EQixia — 30.50°N, 111.20°EQixia — 29.40°N, 110.20°ESurprise Canyon — 35.26°N, 112.90°WSurprise Canyon — 35.93°N, 113.29°WPetersburg — 38.10°N, 87.18°WRoaring Creek Coal — 39.00°N, 87.00°WRoaring Creek Coal — 39.00°N, 85.00°WFountain — 38.40°N, 105.22°WCrab Orchard Mountains — 34.00°N, 85.00°WWide Bay — 78.83°N, 18.00°EPoole Sandstone — 18.00°S, 124.00°EXuanwei — 26.30°N, 104.20°EChangsong — 37.60°N, 128.50°EChangsong — 37.20°N, 129.00°E

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The named rock units Lepidodendraceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 73 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 163 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lepidodendraceae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Lepidodendraceae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

822 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 242 sites for Lepidodendraceae, and this reads 240 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

107 references

Each of the 487 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. 95 further references are 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 Lepidodendraceae

Credit
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Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lepidodendraceae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.