Microspermopteris aphyllum
No picture of Microspermopteris aphyllum 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 Microspermopteris aphyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicrospermopterisPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 60 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 298.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Microspermopteris aphyllum 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
1 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.
Microspermopteris aphyllum and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Microspermopteris aphyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Anabathra pulcherrima1 site
- Anachoropteris1 site
- Botryopteris1 site
- Botryopteris forensis1 site
- Callistophyton1 site
- Chaloneria1 site
- Diaphorodendron dicentricum1 site
- Diaphorodendron scleroticum1 site
- Diaphorodendron sp.1 site
- Heterangium1 site
- Lepidodendron1 site
- Lepidophloios1 site
- Mesoxylon1 site
- Pennsylvanioxylon1 site
- Sphenophyllum1 site
- Zygopteris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Microspermopteris aphyllum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Microspermopteris aphyllum 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 Microspermopteris aphyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Microspermopteris aphyllum 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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What may have been alongside itMicrospermopteris through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Baxter 1949