Prepecopteris dentata
No picture of Prepecopteris dentata 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 Prepecopteris dentata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PrepecopterisPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
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.
3 occurrences of Prepecopteris dentata 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
3 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
- Drywood Formation · Cherokee Group1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Prepecopteris dentata 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.
Prepecopteris dentata and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Prepecopteris dentata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Annularia2 sites
- Calamites2 sites
- Cordaites2 sites
- Diplothmema2 sites
- Mariopteris2 sites
- Neuropteris2 sites
- Pecopteris2 sites
- Sphenophyllum2 sites
- Sphenopteris2 sites
- Alethopteris valida1 site
- Artisia transversa1 site
- Asolanus1 site
- Asterophyllites1 site
- Asterotheca1 site
- Calamites suckowii1 site
- Calamostachys1 site
- Cardiocarpus1 site
- Clycopteris sp.1 site
- Cordaianthus1 site
- Cordaicarpus1 site
- Cyclopteris1 site
- Dictyopteris1 site
- Dorycordaites palmaeformis1 site
- Eremopteris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Prepecopteris dentata, 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- The fossil flora of the Drywood Formation of southwestern Missouri1
- Fossil Flora of the Michigan Coal Basin1
- Flora of the Outlying Carboniferous Basins of Southwestern Missouri1
Each of the 3 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 Prepecopteris dentata 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 Prepecopteris dentata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prepecopteris dentata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPrepecopteris through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brongniart 1835)