Sphenophyllum emarginatum

Sphenophyllum emarginatum

[Michio Murakoshi (1872-1948) · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 37 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 36 of 37 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 37 occurrencesPermian361–358 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences358–355 Mya — about 1 occurrence355–352 Mya — about 1 occurrence352–349 Mya — about 1 occurrence349–346 Mya — about 1 occurrence346–343 Mya — about 1 occurrence343–340 Mya — about 1 occurrence340–337 Mya — about 1 occurrence337–334 Mya — about 1 occurrence334–331 Mya — about 1 occurrence331–328 Mya — about 1 occurrence328–325 Mya — about 1 occurrence325–322 Mya — about 1 occurrence322–320 Mya — about 1 occurrence320–317 Mya — about 2 occurrences317–314 Mya — about 3 occurrences314–311 Mya — about 2 occurrences311–308 Mya — about 7 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 3 occurrences305–302 Mya — about 1 occurrence302–299 Mya — about 1 occurrence299–296 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences296–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–287 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences287–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323.4 Mya298.9 Mya361 Mya273 Mya

37 occurrences of Sphenophyllum emarginatum on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

37 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

10 formations

Pottsville — 33.00°N, 87.00°WPetersburg — 38.10°N, 87.18°WShelburn — 39.28°N, 87.53°WMinto — 46.08°N, 66.08°WBoggy — 35.50°N, 95.49°WDrywood — 38.00°N, 93.00°WBrazil — 39.13°N, 87.02°WKaradon — 41.00°N, 31.00°EOlloniego — 39.00°N, 4.00°WHeilgenwalder Schichten — 49.28°N, 6.80°E

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The named rock units Sphenophyllum emarginatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphenophyllum emarginatum and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Sphenophyllum emarginatum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

191 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Sphenophyllum emarginatum, 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

19 references

Each of the 37 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. 7 further references are not listed. 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 Sphenophyllum emarginatum

Credit
[Michio Murakoshi (1872-1948)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sphenophyllum emarginatum 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 itSphenophyllum through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brongniart 1822)