Schizopteris

Schizopteris

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 67 million years on record.

The record covers at least 304.8 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 8 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 8 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 8 occurrencesLate Triassic325–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–305 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences305–302 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences302–299 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences299–295 Mya — about 2 occurrences295–292 Mya — about 1 occurrence292–289 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences289–285 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences285–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–279 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences279–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–272 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences242–239 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences239–235 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences235–232 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences232–229 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences229–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304.8 Mya237 Mya325 Mya225 Mya

8 occurrences of Schizopteris on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

8 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

5 formations

Winfield — 39.82°N, 97.05°WStanton Limestone — 38.28°N, 95.25°WLawrence Shale — 38.77°N, 95.18°WBebertal-Schichten — 52.20°N, 11.30°EOdernheim-Lauterecken — 49.70°N, 7.80°E

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The named rock units Schizopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Schizopteris and its relatives

Permian

Where Schizopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

73 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Schizopteris, 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 8 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 Schizopteris

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Schizopteris 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 itPolypodiopsida through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1828