Pterophyllum distans
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PterophyllumPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 101 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Pterophyllum distans on record, most of them in the Late 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Pterophyllum distans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pterophyllum distans and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Pterophyllum distans and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Elatocladus3 sites
- Marattiopsis macrocarpa3 sites
- Ptilophyllum cutchense3 sites
- Araucarites minutus2 sites
- Dictyozamites falcatus2 sites
- Dictyozamites feistmantelii2 sites
- Elatocladus conferta2 sites
- Equisetum rajmahalense2 sites
- Gleichenia gleichenoides2 sites
- Gymnospermae2 sites
- Nilssonia fissa2 sites
- Otozamites imbricatus2 sites
- Pachypteris indica2 sites
- Pterophyllum medlicottianum2 sites
- Pterophyllum morrisianum2 sites
- Ptilophyllum acutifolium2 sites
- Sphenopteris hislopii2 sites
- Todites indicus2 sites
- Allocladus bansaensis1 site
- Anomozamites amarjolense1 site
- Araucarites bindrabunensis1 site
- Araucarites cutchensis1 site
- Bennetticarpus1 site
- Brachyphyllum royii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Pterophyllum distans, 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
2 references- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 2: Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Megafossils5
- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants2
Each of the 7 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pterophyllum distans 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 Pterophyllum distans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pterophyllum distans 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 itPterophyllum through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morris 1863)