Rhacophyton

Rhacophyton

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 24 of 31 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 7 of 31 occurrencesCarboniferous389–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences383–380 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences380–378 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences378–376 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences376–374 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences374–371 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences371–369 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences369–367 Mya — about 2 occurrences367–365 Mya — about 3 occurrences365–362 Mya — about 5 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 5 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 3 occurrences358–356 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences356–353 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences353–351 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences351–349 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences347–344 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences342–340 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences340–338 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences336–333 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences329–327 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences327–324 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences382.31 Mya358.86 Mya389 Mya322 Mya

31 occurrences of Rhacophyton on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

31 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

7 formations

Evieux — 50.33°N, 5.13°EEvieux — 50.45°N, 5.28°EEvieux — 50.53°N, 5.57°EEvieux — 50.58°N, 5.75°EEvieux — 50.67°N, 5.70°EEvieux — 50.18°N, 5.38°EEvieux — 50.45°N, 5.06°EPocono — 41.23°N, 77.60°WPocono — 41.25°N, 78.63°WHampshire — 38.91°N, 79.73°WHampshire — 38.52°N, 79.06°WHampshire — 38.53°N, 80.06°WHampshire — 38.55°N, 80.03°WCatskill — 41.79°N, 78.20°WKiskatom — 42.32°N, 74.05°WOneonta — 42.43°N, 74.92°WBois des Mouches — 50.34°N, 4.87°E

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The named rock units Rhacophyton 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.

Rhacophyton and its relatives

Devonian

Where Rhacophyton and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

65 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Rhacophyton, 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

11 references

Each of the 31 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 content1

Picture of Rhacophyton

Credit
K2727
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhacophyton 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 itRhacophytales through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mourlon 1875