Sphenophyta

No picture of Sphenophyta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Sphenophyta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 347 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 66 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 991 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 991 occurrencesDevonian — about 43 of 991 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 291 of 991 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 583 of 991 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 38 of 991 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 991 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 9 of 991 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 11 of 991 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 991 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 991 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 991 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 991 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 991 occurrences451–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–424 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences424–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–398 Mya — about 2 occurrences398–385 Mya — about 22 occurrences385–372 Mya — about 18 occurrences372–359 Mya — about 2 occurrences359–346 Mya — about 4 occurrences346–333 Mya — about 16 occurrences333–320 Mya — about 19 occurrences320–307 Mya — about 129 occurrences307–294 Mya — about 140 occurrences294–281 Mya — about 124 occurrences281–268 Mya — about 185 occurrences268–255 Mya — about 217 occurrences255–241 Mya — about 80 occurrences241–228 Mya — about 6 occurrences228–215 Mya — about 3 occurrences215–202 Mya — about 2 occurrences202–189 Mya — about 4 occurrences189–176 Mya — about 6 occurrences176–163 Mya — about 5 occurrences124–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–98 Mya — about 4 occurrences98–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–58 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences419.62 Mya72.2 Mya451 Mya58 Mya

991 occurrences of Sphenophyta 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

991 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

223 formations

Carbondale — 40.00°N, 88.00°WCarbondale — 39.00°N, 87.00°WLost Branch — 37.19°N, 95.42°WLost Branch — 37.83°N, 94.98°WKoshelevskaya Suite — 56.50°N, 57.50°EKoshelevskaya Suite — 56.40°N, 57.50°EKoshelevskaya Suite — 56.70°N, 57.30°EKoshelevskaya Suite — 57.40°N, 57.70°EKoshelevskaya Suite — 57.40°N, 57.60°EKoshelevskaya Suite — 57.50°N, 58.30°EKoshelevskaya Suite — 57.00°N, 58.20°ESpoon — 40.00°N, 88.00°WShanxi — 37.80°N, 112.20°EShanxi — 40.00°N, 116.20°EShanxi — 38.00°N, 114.00°EShanxi — 41.80°N, 126.50°EShanxi — 35.20°N, 109.90°EShanxi — 34.20°N, 113.50°EShanxi — 38.80°N, 105.60°EShanxi — 41.20°N, 123.80°EShanxi — 38.80°N, 99.60°EShanxi — 38.50°N, 102.20°EShanxi — 38.20°N, 106.40°EShanxi — 39.40°N, 111.00°EShanxi — 35.10°N, 117.20°ESabanakovian — 56.50°N, 57.70°ESabanakovian — 56.50°N, 57.50°ESabanakovian — 56.30°N, 57.80°ESabanakovian — 56.00°N, 58.00°ESabanakovian — 56.20°N, 58.00°ESeminole — 37.26°N, 93.86°WSeminole — 37.15°N, 95.47°WSeminole — 37.18°N, 95.42°WSeminole — 36.08°N, 95.05°WSeminole — 36.78°N, 95.69°WUrminskian — 57.50°N, 58.50°EUrminskian — 57.40°N, 58.40°EUrminskian — 57.70°N, 58.50°EWild Cow — 35.00°N, 106.67°WWild Cow — 34.95°N, 106.30°WLongtan — 30.80°N, 120.20°ELongtan — 30.80°N, 118.70°ELongtan — 30.80°N, 119.40°ELongtan — 30.20°N, 114.90°ELongtan — 27.00°N, 113.30°ELongtan — 24.70°N, 110.60°ELongtan — 31.30°N, 120.60°ELongtan — 34.00°N, 119.80°ERio do Rasto — 28.30°S, 49.50°WRio do Rasto — 27.00°S, 50.00°WRio do Rasto — 25.50°S, 51.00°WDong — 25.10°N, 113.60°EDong — 24.80°N, 113.60°EGabdrashitovian Suite — 55.10°N, 57.60°EGabdrashitovian Suite — 56.20°N, 57.80°EGabdrashitovian Suite — 55.50°N, 58.00°EGabdrashitovian Suite — 55.70°N, 58.10°EKyzyl-Kiya Suite — 47.80°N, 77.50°EKyzyl-Kiya Suite — 46.70°N, 79.00°EKyzyl-Kiya Suite — 47.40°N, 79.70°EShelburn — 37.89°N, 87.71°WShelburn — 39.04°N, 87.28°WShelburn — 37.91°N, 88.80°WShelburn — 39.50°N, 90.04°WGneudna — 26.00°S, 115.00°EGneudna — 23.00°S, 116.00°ECape Stewart — 70.50°N, 22.60°WUnnamed — 38.64°N, 94.40°WUnnamed — 40.23°N, 93.13°WUnnamed — 39.00°N, 93.97°WNoyansomonskaya Suite — 43.40°N, 102.20°EConemaugh — 39.71°N, 80.83°WConemaugh — 39.33°N, 82.13°WConemaugh — 40.69°N, 80.64°WConemaugh — 40.34°N, 80.67°WHepler Unit — 37.83°N, 94.98°WLekskaya Suite — 57.70°N, 57.80°ELekskaya Suite — 58.30°N, 57.90°ELekskaya Suite — 58.30°N, 58.00°ETradewater — 37.56°N, 88.51°WTradewater — 37.56°N, 88.79°WTradewater — 37.50°N, 88.01°WPatoka — 39.45°N, 89.95°WPatoka — 39.49°N, 90.02°WPatoka — 39.48°N, 90.10°W

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The named rock units Sphenophyta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 199 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 330 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphenophyta and its relatives

Permian

Where Sphenophyta and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

621 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 615 sites for Sphenophyta, and this reads 240 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

157 references

Each of the 991 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. 145 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

3D model

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Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
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No picture of Sphenophyta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Sphenophyta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.