Sphenopteris goepperti
No picture of Sphenopteris goepperti was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Sphenopteris goepperti firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At least 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 113.2 Mya.
4 occurrences of Sphenopteris goepperti on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
- Kootenai Formation2
- Sainte-Barbe Clays Formation · Wealden Group1
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The named rock units Sphenopteris goepperti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sphenopteris goepperti and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Sphenopteris goepperti and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Acrostichopteris longipennis2 sites
- Gleichenites2 sites
- Marchantiolites blairmorensis2 sites
- Adiantites1 site
- Aethalion robustus1 site
- Algites1 site
- Amiopsis dolloi1 site
- Anteophthalmosuchus epikrator1 site
- Anteophthalmosuchus hooleyi1 site
- Arthrotaxites ungeri1 site
- Ascarites gerus1 site
- Ascarites priscus1 site
- Asplenites1 site
- Baiera1 site
- Belonostomus1 site
- Bernissartia fagesii1 site
- Callopterus insignis1 site
- Caturus1 site
- Chitracephalus dumonii1 site
- Cladophlebis1 site
- Cladophlebis browniana1 site
- Cladophlebis constricta1 site
- Cladophlebis oerstedi1 site
- Cladophlebis ungeri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Sphenopteris goepperti, 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
3 references- Flora of the Early Cretaceous Kootenai Formation in Montana, Bryophytes and Tracheophytes Excluding Conifers2
- Some Mesozoic plant-bearing deposits in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego and their floras1
- Le gisement des Iguanodons de Bernissart [The locality of the Iguanodons of Bernissart]1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Sphenopteris goepperti was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Sphenopteris goepperti firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Sphenopteris goepperti 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 itFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dunker 1846