Matonidium goepperti

Matonidium goepperti

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 10 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 5 of 10 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 10 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous176–174 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 1 occurrence172–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 2 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 2 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170.9 Mya125.77 Mya176 Mya118 Mya

10 occurrences of Matonidium goepperti on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

10 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

4 formations

Cloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WLower Saltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSainte-Barbe Clays — 50.48°N, 3.65°E

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The named rock units Matonidium goepperti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Matonidium goepperti and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Matonidium goepperti and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

150 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Matonidium goepperti, 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

5 references

Each of the 10 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No 3D scan of Matonidium goepperti 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ettingshausen 1871