Selaginellites

No picture of Selaginellites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Selaginellites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LycopodophytaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 292 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 399.5 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 50 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 50 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 50 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 2 of 50 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 50 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 8 of 50 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 7 of 50 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 8 of 50 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 6 of 50 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 50 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 50 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 50 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 50 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 50 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 50 occurrences407–394 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences394–381 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–329 Mya — about 1 occurrence303–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–277 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences277–263 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences263–250 Mya — about 2 occurrences250–237 Mya — about 2 occurrences237–224 Mya — about 2 occurrences224–211 Mya — about 3 occurrences211–198 Mya — about 4 occurrences198–185 Mya — about 2 occurrences185–172 Mya — about 6 occurrences172–159 Mya — about 8 occurrences159–146 Mya — about 4 occurrences146–133 Mya — about 2 occurrences133–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–107 Mya — about 3 occurrences107–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–55 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences55–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393.47 Mya100.5 Mya407 Mya16 Mya

50 occurrences of Selaginellites on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

50 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

19 formations

Kokala Suite — 44.30°N, 51.80°EKokala Suite — 44.10°N, 52.20°EKokala Suite — 43.10°N, 54.90°EMine — 56.10°N, 12.85°EFuxian — 39.10°N, 111.00°EFuxian — 36.00°N, 109.30°ELamaya — 28.90°N, 99.70°ELamaya — 30.00°N, 100.20°ERajmahal — 25.23°N, 87.49°ERajmahal — 24.54°N, 87.57°EDrybrook Sandstone — 51.87°N, 2.48°WDatong — 40.10°N, 113.10°EDaken — 25.50°N, 117.60°EUpper Rejuechaka — 33.60°N, 86.80°EBaoding — 26.90°N, 101.50°EBhuj (plus Jhuran in part?) — 23.40°N, 69.50°EKaradiirmen' Suite — 43.10°N, 54.90°EUpper Gring Suite — 38.20°N, 70.40°EYagman coal Suite — 39.80°N, 54.30°EAngren Suite — 40.90°N, 71.00°EBalabansai — 40.80°N, 73.40°EFort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WDont — 46.74°N, 12.12°EBhuj — 23.32°N, 69.77°E

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The named rock units Selaginellites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Selaginellites and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Selaginellites and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

388 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Selaginellites, 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

28 references

Each of the 50 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. 16 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Selaginellites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Selaginellites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Selaginellites 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 itLycopodophyta through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zeiller 1906