Pityospermum

No picture of Pityospermum was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Pityospermum firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
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Time the record covers

At least 138 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 52 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 52 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 52 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 5 of 52 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 15 of 52 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 14 of 52 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 11 of 52 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 52 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 52 occurrences257–252 Mya — about 1 occurrence246–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–235 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences235–230 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences230–224 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences224–218 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences218–213 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences213–207 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences207–202 Mya — about 1 occurrence202–196 Mya — about 1 occurrence196–191 Mya — about 3 occurrences191–185 Mya — about 4 occurrences185–180 Mya — about 4 occurrences180–174 Mya — about 4 occurrences174–168 Mya — about 7 occurrences168–163 Mya — about 5 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 3 occurrences157–152 Mya — about 3 occurrences152–146 Mya — about 3 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 3 occurrences141–135 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences130–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–118 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences118–113 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences113–107 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences102–96 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251.902 Mya113.2 Mya257 Mya91 Mya

52 occurrences of Pityospermum on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

52 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

38 formations

Tantalus — 60.30°N, 135.10°WUpper Katynadyr Suite — 51.20°N, 58.60°EUpper Dzhaskoi Suite — 62.20°N, 134.40°EUpper Dzhaskoi Suite — 62.10°N, 135.80°EAbashevo Suite — 54.50°N, 87.40°EPereyaslovka Suite — 56.80°N, 96.00°EKok-Yangak Suite — 41.00°N, 73.20°EMiddle Gurud Suite — 38.60°N, 67.40°EKrivorechenskaya — 64.48°N, 168.92°EKootenay — 49.50°N, 115.00°WShiqianfeng — 34.50°N, 112.20°ENaizhishan — 43.60°N, 127.20°EManketouwobuo — 44.80°N, 119.40°EYaojai — 36.50°N, 104.70°ELongjiang — 49.10°N, 120.70°EDubovka Suite — 49.80°N, 73.10°EMikhailovka Suite — 49.80°N, 73.10°ESandzhar Suite — 39.20°N, 68.60°EGurud Suite — 38.50°N, 68.60°EGabirut and Dzhizhikrut Suites — 39.20°N, 68.60°EDzhil' Suite — 42.70°N, 77.20°EKholodzhikan Suite — 53.30°N, 120.90°ELower Osinniki Suite — 54.50°N, 87.40°EOr' Suite — 51.20°N, 58.60°EDzharsu Suite — 44.20°N, 52.50°E

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The named rock units Pityospermum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pityospermum and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Pityospermum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

198 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Pityospermum, 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

32 references

Each of the 52 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. 20 further references are 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

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No picture of Pityospermum was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Pityospermum firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Pityospermum 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nathorst 1899