Matthewichnus
No picture of Matthewichnus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Matthewichnus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmphibiaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda
Time the record covers
At most 60 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Matthewichnus 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Matthewichnus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Matthewichnus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Matthewichnus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Agaeoleptoptera uniotempla1 site
- Alethopteris valida1 site
- Anniedarwinia alabamensis1 site
- Arborichnus repetita1 site
- Arenicolites longistriatus1 site
- Artisia1 site
- Aspidiopsis1 site
- Asterophyllites charaeformis1 site
- Attenosaurus subulensis1 site
- Calamites goepperti1 site
- Calamites suckowii1 site
- Calamites undulatus1 site
- Calamostachys1 site
- Camptodiapha atkinsoni1 site
- Carpolithes1 site
- Cincosaurus cobbi1 site
- Cochlichnus1 site
- Cordaicarpon1 site
- Cordaites1 site
- Cyclopteris1 site
- Diplichnites1 site
- Holcospermum1 site
- Kouphichnium1 site
- Lepidodendron aculeatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Matthewichnus, 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- Interpretation of the tetrapod footprints from the early Pennsylvanian of Alabama1
- Tetrapod trackways (Matthewichnus sp. and ?Pseudobradypus sp.) from the Coal Measures (Carboniferous) of Central Scotland1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Matthewichnus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Matthewichnus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Matthewichnus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAmphibia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haubold 1970