Sphenopteris mclearni

No picture of Sphenopteris mclearni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sphenopteris mclearni itself, so it was not used. 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 Sphenopteris mclearni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 20 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 119.57 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 10 of 10 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 10 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences109–109 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120.1 Mya100 Mya

10 occurrences of Sphenopteris mclearni 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

10 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

4 formations

  • Kootenai FormationMontana · US · 119.57–113.2 Mya4
  • Beaver Mines FormationBritish Columbia · CA · 113.2–106.3 Mya2
  • Mountain Park? Luscar? Formation · Blairmore GroupAlberta · CA · 113.2–100.5 Mya1
  • Luscar? Mountain Park? Formation · Blairmore GroupAlberta · CA · 113.2–100.5 Mya1
Kootenai — 47.48°N, 111.37°WBeaver Mines — 49.03°N, 114.50°WBeaver Mines — 49.13°N, 114.90°WMountain Park? Luscar? — 49.60°N, 114.50°WLuscar? Mountain Park? — 49.50°N, 114.40°W

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The named rock units Sphenopteris mclearni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphenopteris mclearni and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Sphenopteris mclearni and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

53 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Sphenopteris mclearni, 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

Each of the 10 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 Sphenopteris mclearni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sphenopteris mclearni itself, so it was not used.

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 Sphenopteris mclearni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sphenopteris mclearni 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 itSphenopteris through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bell 1956