Rhyniopsida

Rhyniopsida

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 425 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Silurian — about 2 of 7 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 5 of 7 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 7 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences422–419 Mya — about 1 occurrence419–417 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences406–403 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–380 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences380–378 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences378–376 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences376–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences371–369 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences369–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419.62 Mya393.47 Mya426 Mya358 Mya

7 occurrences of Rhyniopsida 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

7 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

6 formations

Downtonian — 51.00°N, 3.00°WBathurst Island — 75.80°N, 98.48°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 52.37°N, 2.73°WWitpoort Sandstone — 33.33°S, 26.50°EBeartooth Butte — 44.95°N, 109.62°WBattery Point — 48.83°N, 64.30°W

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The named rock units Rhyniopsida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhyniopsida and its relatives

Devonian

Where Rhyniopsida and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

49 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Rhyniopsida, 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

6 references

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. 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 Rhyniopsida

Credit
Plantsurfer
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0 uk
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhyniopsida 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 itTracheophyta through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kryshtofovich 1925