Pterophyllum

No picture of Pterophyllum was found. iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pterophyllum itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pterophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 187 million years on record.

The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 66 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 831 occurrencesPermian — about 22 of 831 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 3 of 831 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 22 of 831 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 367 of 831 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 155 of 831 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 121 of 831 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 116 of 831 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 24 of 831 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 831 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 831 occurrences308–300 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences300–292 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences292–284 Mya — about 3 occurrences284–275 Mya — about 3 occurrences275–267 Mya — about 1 occurrence267–259 Mya — about 3 occurrences259–251 Mya — about 11 occurrences251–243 Mya — about 6 occurrences243–234 Mya — about 49 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 91 occurrences226–218 Mya — about 73 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 73 occurrences210–201 Mya — about 99 occurrences201–193 Mya — about 70 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 35 occurrences185–177 Mya — about 39 occurrences177–168 Mya — about 57 occurrences168–160 Mya — about 80 occurrences160–152 Mya — about 49 occurrences152–144 Mya — about 56 occurrences144–135 Mya — about 10 occurrences135–127 Mya — about 4 occurrences127–119 Mya — about 5 occurrences119–111 Mya — about 4 occurrences111–102 Mya — about 3 occurrences102–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences293.52 Mya106.3 Mya308 Mya61 Mya

831 occurrences of Pterophyllum on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

831 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

187 formations

Cape Stewart — 70.50°N, 22.60°WSanta Clara — 28.57°N, 110.21°WSanta Clara — 28.51°N, 110.19°WSanta Clara — 28.56°N, 109.34°WSanta Clara — 28.58°N, 109.67°WSanta Clara — 28.55°N, 109.35°WSanta Clara — 28.56°N, 110.13°WSanta Clara — 28.58°N, 109.63°WSanta Clara — 28.50°N, 110.30°WRajmahal — 25.08°N, 87.74°ERajmahal — 25.24°N, 87.71°ERajmahal — 24.54°N, 87.57°ERajmahal — 25.14°N, 87.50°ERajmahal — 25.03°N, 87.59°ESteierdorf — 45.08°N, 21.85°EAnyuan — 27.60°N, 113.80°EAnyuan — 28.50°N, 118.00°EAnyuan — 29.80°N, 118.50°EAnyuan — 26.00°N, 115.40°EWenbinshan — 25.50°N, 117.60°EBagong — 31.10°N, 97.20°EBagong — 30.80°N, 97.50°EBagong — 31.00°N, 98.30°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.80°N, 37.60°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.60°N, 37.50°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.60°N, 37.40°ELamaya — 28.90°N, 99.70°ELamaya — 30.00°N, 100.20°ELower Gring Suite — 38.20°N, 70.30°ELower Gring Suite — 38.50°N, 70.20°EUpper Tashkutan Suite — 38.50°N, 67.90°EUpper Tashkutan Suite — 38.70°N, 69.30°EKokala Suite — 44.30°N, 51.80°EKokala Suite — 44.10°N, 52.20°ECloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WCloughton — 54.17°N, 0.25°WBaiguowan — 29.00°N, 102.80°EBaiguowan — 26.60°N, 102.20°EZorrillo — 17.60°N, 97.60°WZorrillo — 17.60°N, 97.80°WCommotion — 55.50°N, 122.00°WCommotion — 54.42°N, 120.37°WMine — 56.08°N, 12.90°EMine — 56.10°N, 12.85°ELinshan — 27.00°N, 117.00°ELinshan — 27.90°N, 114.90°ELinshan — 27.00°N, 114.20°EDabao — 41.60°N, 125.00°EDabao — 41.40°N, 124.00°EJiuligang — 31.00°N, 112.20°EDaqiaode — 26.60°N, 101.80°ETumaingela — 32.00°N, 94.00°ETumaingela — 33.00°N, 91.20°EKadir Suite — 28.90°N, 58.70°EKadir Suite — 37.00°N, 46.70°EKadir Suite — 33.40°N, 51.60°EDzharsu Suite — 44.20°N, 52.50°EDzharsu Suite — 44.40°N, 51.30°EDzharsu Suite — 44.20°N, 51.90°E

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The named rock units Pterophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 163 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 382 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pterophyllum and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Pterophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

542 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 414 sites for Pterophyllum, and this reads 240 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

181 references

Each of the 831 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. 169 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Pterophyllum scalare · UWFC:ADULT COLLECTION:UW 010009

No picture of Pterophyllum was found. iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pterophyllum itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pterophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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. Brongniart 1828