Rhacopteris ovata
No picture of Rhacopteris ovata 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 Rhacopteris ovata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhacopterisPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
6 occurrences of Rhacopteris ovata 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
6 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
3 formations
- Gund Formation · Po Group3
- Zewan Formation2
- Wynyard Formation1
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The named rock units Rhacopteris ovata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rhacopteris ovata and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Rhacopteris ovata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Archaeosigillaria minuta3 sites
- Lepidodendropsis3 sites
- Lepidosigillaria quadrata3 sites
- Rhodea subpetiolata3 sites
- Archaeosigillaria2 sites
- Cyclostigma pacifica2 sites
- Rhacopteris circularis2 sites
- Triphyllopteris lescuriana2 sites
- Adiantites1 site
- Anostraca1 site
- Archaeocalamites radiatus1 site
- Asterophyllites1 site
- Cyclostigma ungeri1 site
- Lycopodophyta1 site
- Psychroptilus burrettae1 site
- Rhodea tenuis1 site
- Sphenopteris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Rhacopteris ovata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 2: Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Megafossils4
- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants1
- A Carboniferous insect1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Rhacopteris ovata 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 Rhacopteris ovata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhacopteris ovata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRhacopteris through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (McCoy 1847)