Stellatheca latiloba

Stellatheca latiloba

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 3.3 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 307 Mya and 303.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307.5 Mya303.2 Mya

1 occurrence of Stellatheca latiloba 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

1 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

1 formation

Carbondale — 41.28°N, 88.28°W

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The named rock units Stellatheca latiloba has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Stellatheca latiloba and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Stellatheca latiloba and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Stellatheca latiloba, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Stellatheca latiloba

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Stellatheca latiloba 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 itStellatheca through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

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