Neuralethopteris smithsii
No picture of Neuralethopteris smithsii 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 Neuralethopteris smithsii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeuralethopterisPBDB
- Diet
- C3 autotrophPBDB, for Neuropteridae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Neuropteridae
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Neuropteridae
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.
8 occurrences of Neuralethopteris smithsii 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
8 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Neuralethopteris smithsii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Neuralethopteris smithsii and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Neuralethopteris smithsii and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Neuralethopteris pocahontas4 sites
- Annularia2 sites
- Asterophyllites2 sites
- Calamites2 sites
- Eusphenopteris2 sites
- Lepidophylloides2 sites
- Lepidostrobus2 sites
- Lyginopteris hoeninghausi2 sites
- Macrostachya2 sites
- Mariopteris2 sites
- Palmatopteris furcata2 sites
- Pecopteris (Alethopteris)2 sites
- Pinnularia2 sites
- Rachis sp.2 sites
- Sphenophyllum2 sites
- Sphenophyllum emarginatum2 sites
- Sphenopteris2 sites
- Sphenopteris pottsvillea2 sites
- Alloiopteris1 site
- Artisia1 site
- Calamites (Mesocalamites)1 site
- Lepidodendron aculeatum1 site
- Lepidodendron obovatum1 site
- Lepidophloios laricinus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Neuralethopteris smithsii, 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
3 references- A paleoecological study of an in situ peat-forming Carboniferous forest in the Black Warrior Basin, Alabama5
- Plant Fossils in Early & Middle Parts of the Proposed Pennsylvanian System Stratotype in West Virginia2
- A paleontological study of an Early Pennsylvanian forest preserved above the Blue Creek Coal seam, Pottsville, Formation, Northwestern Alabama1
Each of the 8 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 picture of Neuralethopteris smithsii 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 Neuralethopteris smithsii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Neuralethopteris smithsii 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.
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What may have been alongside itNeuralethopteris through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lesquereux 1880