Rhodeopteridium
No picture of Rhodeopteridium was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Rhodeopteridium firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlantaePBDB
Time the record covers
At most 36 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Rhodeopteridium 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
4 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
- Glencartholm Volcanic Formation · Upper Border Group1
- Price Formation1
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The named rock units Rhodeopteridium 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.
Rhodeopteridium and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Rhodeopteridium and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Lepidodendron3 sites
- Sphenopteris3 sites
- Archaeocalamites radiatus2 sites
- Carpolithes2 sites
- Holcospermum2 sites
- Lagenospermum2 sites
- Neuropteris2 sites
- Rhacopteris2 sites
- Spathulopteris2 sites
- Sphenopteridium2 sites
- Acanthracochaerilus palustris1 site
- Adiantites1 site
- Alloiopteris1 site
- Alloiopteris quercifolia1 site
- Annularia1 site
- Asterophyllites1 site
- Bythotrepis acicularis1 site
- Bythotrepis plumosa1 site
- Bythotrepis scotica1 site
- Bythotrepis simplex1 site
- Calamites (Mesocalamites)1 site
- Calamostachys1 site
- Calathiops1 site
- Cardiopteridium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Rhodeopteridium, 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
3 references- Palaeozoic Palaeobotany of Great Britain2
- Eurypterids from the Price Formation of Virginia: First Eurypterids from the Mississippian of North America1
- An Early Pennsylvanian Flora with Megalopteris and Noeggerathiales from West-Central Illinois1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Rhodeopteridium was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Rhodeopteridium firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Rhodeopteridium 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 itPlantae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zimmermann 1959