Lidgettonia africana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LidgettoniaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 8.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 251.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Lidgettonia africana 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
2 formations
- Estcourt Formation · Beaufort Group2
- Balfour Formation · Adelaide Group1
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The named rock units Lidgettonia africana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lidgettonia africana and its relatives
PermianWhere Lidgettonia africana and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Glossopteris3 sites
- Phyllotheca australis3 sites
- Neomariopteris lobifolia2 sites
- Afrogrylloblattus disputabilis1 site
- Afrotaldycupes lidgettoniensis1 site
- Aleuronympha bibulla1 site
- Alisporites1 site
- Anthracoptilidae1 site
- Arberiella1 site
- Auchenorrhyncha indet.1 site
- Beaufortiscus dixi1 site
- Buthelezia mooiensis1 site
- Chordasporites1 site
- Columinisporites sp.1 site
- Eretmonia natalensis1 site
- Euxenoperla oliveri1 site
- Falcisporites1 site
- Falcisporites australis1 site
- Guttulapollenites1 site
- Hamiapollenites1 site
- Insecta1 site
- Klausipollenites1 site
- Liomopterites ulterior1 site
- Lueckisporites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lidgettonia africana, 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
2 references- Anderson and Anderson, 19852
- An autochthonous glossopterid flora with latest Permian palynomorphs and its depositional setting in the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone of the southern Karoo Basin, South Africa1
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. 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 Lidgettonia africana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lidgettonia africana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lidgettonia africana was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itLidgettonia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thomas 1958