Palaeostigma

No picture of Palaeostigma was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Palaeostigma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 52 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 8 of 8 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 8 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences378–376 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences376–374 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences374–372 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences372–370 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences369–367 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences367–365 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences365–363 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences363–361 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412 Mya358 Mya

8 occurrences of Palaeostigma on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

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

5 formations

Witpoort Sandstone — 33.33°S, 26.50°EWaboomberg — 33.00°S, 19.33°EWaboomberg — 32.96°S, 19.36°EWeltevrede — 33.50°S, 26.83°ETra-Tra Shale — 33.33°S, 19.83°EPimenteira — 7.00°S, 42.00°W

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The named rock units Palaeostigma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeostigma and its relatives

Devonian

Where Palaeostigma and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

41 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Palaeostigma, 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

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. 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 content0

No picture of Palaeostigma was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Palaeostigma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Palaeostigma 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 itRhyniaceae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kraeusel and Dolianiti 1957