Neocalamites

Neocalamites is an extinct genus of equisetalean plant. Neocalamites thrived during the Permian and Triassic, and occurs worldwide.

Neocalamites

Jonathan Chen · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
CalamitaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 141 million years on record.

The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 152.21 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 550 occurrencesPermian — about 8 of 550 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 16 of 550 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 44 of 550 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 230 of 550 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 165 of 550 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 82 of 550 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 550 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 550 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 550 occurrences303–296 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences296–289 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences289–282 Mya — about 1 occurrence282–275 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences275–268 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences268–262 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences262–255 Mya — about 3 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 15 occurrences248–241 Mya — about 23 occurrences241–234 Mya — about 41 occurrences234–227 Mya — about 44 occurrences227–220 Mya — about 39 occurrences220–213 Mya — about 39 occurrences213–207 Mya — about 39 occurrences207–200 Mya — about 69 occurrences200–193 Mya — about 46 occurrences193–186 Mya — about 43 occurrences186–179 Mya — about 36 occurrences179–172 Mya — about 37 occurrences172–165 Mya — about 52 occurrences165–158 Mya — about 15 occurrences158–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–145 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences293.52 Mya152.21 Mya303 Mya97 Mya

550 occurrences of Neocalamites on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

550 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

216 formations

Cape Stewart — 70.50°N, 22.60°WDzhil' Suite — 41.80°N, 74.00°EDzhil' Suite — 42.70°N, 77.20°EDabao — 41.60°N, 125.00°EDabao — 41.40°N, 124.00°ELinshan — 28.40°N, 117.50°ELinshan — 27.00°N, 116.00°ELinshan — 28.40°N, 118.30°ELinshan — 27.90°N, 114.90°ELinshan — 26.00°N, 115.50°ENanyonger — 36.70°N, 104.80°ENanyonger — 37.60°N, 105.70°ETanchuang — 35.20°N, 112.30°EKoktui Suite — 41.80°N, 74.00°EKoktui Suite — 42.70°N, 77.20°EFan Suite — 39.20°N, 68.50°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.80°N, 37.60°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.60°N, 37.50°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.60°N, 37.40°EHeshangzou — 41.00°N, 117.90°EHeshangzou — 35.20°N, 112.30°EHongqi — 42.80°N, 126.40°EHongqi — 41.00°N, 120.80°EHongqi — 48.00°N, 122.80°EUpper Alakol' Suite — 46.00°N, 82.20°EBasal and coal-bearing Suite — 42.50°N, 78.70°EBasal and coal-bearing Suite — 42.60°N, 79.00°ERavat Suite — 39.20°N, 68.50°EPotrerillos — 33.00°S, 69.10°WPotrerillos — 33.00°S, 69.00°WPotrerillos — 33.08°S, 69.11°WWudanggou — 41.60°N, 108.20°EWudanggou — 40.80°N, 111.10°EHaifanggou — 42.90°N, 123.30°EHaifanggou — 41.80°N, 120.80°EBataowuan — 44.00°N, 88.00°EBataowuan — 43.00°N, 89.10°EBataowuan — 42.80°N, 88.60°EDaxigou — 36.50°N, 104.00°EDaxigou — 36.00°N, 103.20°EYangxia — 41.80°N, 84.40°EXishanyao — 44.00°N, 87.20°EXishanyao — 46.00°N, 83.00°EXishanyao — 42.60°N, 93.20°ETongchuan — 39.70°N, 106.90°ETongchuan — 35.20°N, 109.20°EJiuligang — 31.00°N, 112.20°EBaiguowan — 29.00°N, 102.80°EBaiguowan — 28.30°N, 102.50°EBaiguowan — 26.60°N, 102.20°E

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The named rock units Neocalamites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 192 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 191 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neocalamites and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Neocalamites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

398 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 399 sites for Neocalamites, and this reads 240 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

169 references

Each of the 550 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. 157 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Neocalamites

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Neocalamites 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.

The description on this site

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

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What may have been alongside itCalamitaceae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Halle 1908