Mixoneura

A picture published with the record for Mixoneura. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 23 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 8 of 23 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 15 of 23 occurrencesPermian361–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–339 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences339–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–332 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences332–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–321 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences321–317 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences317–314 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences314–310 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences310–307 Mya — about 2 occurrences307–303 Mya — about 1 occurrence303–299 Mya — about 1 occurrence299–296 Mya — about 4 occurrences296–292 Mya — about 4 occurrences292–288 Mya — about 3 occurrences288–285 Mya — about 2 occurrences285–281 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences263–259 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences259–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences307.4 Mya259.857 Mya361 Mya252 Mya

23 occurrences of Mixoneura 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

23 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

9 formations

Marl Slate — 54.60°N, 1.70°WShelburn — 39.28°N, 87.53°WAssise de Millery — 46.90°N, 4.30°EGres de Bucaco — 40.40°N, 8.40°WRoja Inferior — 42.40°N, 0.70°EAblanedo — 43.00°N, 5.00°WUnit B — 30.70°N, 9.20°WHeilgenwalder Schichten — 49.28°N, 6.80°EMahoning — 40.70°N, 80.65°W

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The named rock units Mixoneura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mixoneura and its relatives

Permian

Where Mixoneura and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

93 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Mixoneura, 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

13 references

Each of the 23 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. 1 further reference is 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 Mixoneura

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPteridophyta through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weiss 1870