Salopella allenii

Salopella is a form genus for small fossil plants of Late Silurian to Early Devonian age. The diagnostic characters are naked axes branching isotomously, terminating in fusiform sporangia. The sporangia are unbranched, but in at least the type species the axes seem to branch just under the sporangia. It differs from the similar form genus Tortilicaulis in that the sporangia do not have spirally arranged cells, and from other similar form genera such as Cooksonia, Uskiella and Tarrantia in the shape of the sporangia.

A picture published with the record for Salopella allenii. What it shows has not been checked.

Smith609 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

Time the record covers

At most 27 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Silurian — about 0 of 1 occurrenceDevonian — about 1 of 1 occurrenceDevonian420–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences407–407 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences397–397 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420.1 Mya392.9 Mya

1 occurrence of Salopella allenii 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

1 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.

Salopella allenii and its relatives

Devonian

Where Salopella allenii and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Salopella allenii, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

Media content1

Picture of Salopella allenii

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No 3D scan of Salopella allenii 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.