Protocalamostachys
No picture of Protocalamostachys 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 Protocalamostachys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EquisetalesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 6.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 339.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 330.3 Mya.
5 occurrences of Protocalamostachys 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
5 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
2 formations
- Garlton Hills Volcanics Formation · Lower Lothian Calciferous Sandstone Measures (Series) Group2
- Clyde Plateau Volcanic Formation · Volcanic (= Lower Oil Shale) Group1
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The named rock units Protocalamostachys 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.
Protocalamostachys and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Protocalamostachys and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Amyelon3 sites
- Lepidophloios3 sites
- Lepidostrobus3 sites
- Lyginorachis3 sites
- Archaeocalamites2 sites
- Bensonites fusiformis2 sites
- Bilignea solida2 sites
- Botryopteris2 sites
- Buteoxylon gordonianum2 sites
- cf. Eccroustosperma langtonense2 sites
- cf. Melissiotheca sp.2 sites
- Cheirostrobus pettycurensis2 sites
- Deltasperma fouldenense2 sites
- Dolichosperma sexangulatum2 sites
- Eosperma oxroadense2 sites
- Eurystoma2 sites
- Gymnospermopsida2 sites
- Heterangium2 sites
- Hydrasperma tenuis2 sites
- Lepidocarpon2 sites
- Lepidodendron2 sites
- Mazocarpon2 sites
- Oxroadia2 sites
- Paralycopodites2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Protocalamostachys, 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
4 references- A reappraisal of the Dinantian floras at Oxroad Bay, East Lothian, Scotland. 1. Floristics and the development of whole-plant concepts2
- Palaeozoic Palaeobotany of Great Britain1
- The Sedimentology, Palaeoecology and Preservation of the Lower Carboniferous Plant Deposits at Pettycur, Fife, Scotland1
- Distribution of anatomically-preserved floras in the Lower Carboniferous in Western Europe1
Each of the 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Protocalamostachys 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 Protocalamostachys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protocalamostachys 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 itEquisetales through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walton 1949