Sphenobaiera spectabilis

No picture of Sphenobaiera spectabilis 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 Sphenobaiera spectabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 53 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 16 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 15 of 16 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 16 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205–203 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 1 occurrence197–196 Mya — about 1 occurrence196–194 Mya — about 1 occurrence194–192 Mya — about 1 occurrence192–190 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences181–179 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences177–175 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences228 Mya174 Mya

16 occurrences of Sphenobaiera spectabilis on record, most of them in the Early 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

16 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

2 formations

Cape Stewart — 70.50°N, 22.60°WHeiberg — 80.27°N, 84.87°WHeiberg — 79.62°N, 84.83°W

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The named rock units Sphenobaiera spectabilis 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.

Sphenobaiera spectabilis and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Sphenobaiera spectabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

88 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Sphenobaiera spectabilis, 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 16 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

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No picture of Sphenobaiera spectabilis 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 Sphenobaiera spectabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sphenobaiera spectabilis 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itSphenobaiera through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nathorst 1936