Salopella sp.

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 sp.. 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 least 9.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 15 occurrencesSilurian — about 7 of 15 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 8 of 15 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–421 Mya — about 2 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 2 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 2 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 2 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 1 occurrence413–411 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences411–408 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422.7 Mya413.02 Mya444 Mya381 Mya

15 occurrences of Salopella sp. 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

15 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

St. Maughans — 52.00°N, 2.00°WVillavicencio — 32.52°S, 69.01°WVillavicencio — 32.87°S, 69.02°WYea — 37.22°S, 145.43°EYea — 37.17°S, 145.33°EFrenchman Spur — 35.20°S, 143.43°ERushall — 52.00°N, 2.00°WWutubulake — 46.82°N, 66.62°EFurnas — 24.25°S, 49.69°W

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The named rock units Salopella sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Salopella sp. and its relatives

Devonian

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

Found in the same rock

64 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Salopella sp., 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 15 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 Salopella sp.

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No 3D scan of Salopella sp. 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.

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.