Synchysidendron sp.

Falconaumanni · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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.
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 312.8 Mya and 306 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Synchysidendron sp. 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
9 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Synchysidendron sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Synchysidendron sp. and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Synchysidendron sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Medullosa8 sites
- Synchysidendron resinosum8 sites
- Lepidophloios7 sites
- Lepidodendraceae6 sites
- Paralycopodites6 sites
- Psaronius6 sites
- Sphenophyllum6 sites
- Arthropitys5 sites
- Anachoropteris4 sites
- Calamodendron4 sites
- Heterangium3 sites
- Hizemodendron serratum3 sites
- Lepidodendron3 sites
- Stelastellara parvula3 sites
- Annularia1 site
- Artisia1 site
- Callistophyton1 site
- Diaphorodendron sp.1 site
- Lobatopteris vestita1 site
- Neuropteris1 site
- Pecopteris1 site
- Pennsylvanioxylon1 site
- Pinnularia1 site
- Pteridophyta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Synchysidendron sp., 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
2 references- A Transect through a Clastic-swamp to Peat-swamp Ecotene in the Springfield Coal, Middle Pennsylvanian Age of Indiana, USA8
- Paleoecology of the Springfield Coal Member (Desmoinesian, Illinois Basin) near the Leslie Cemetery paleochannel, southwestern Indiana1
Each of the 9 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Synchysidendron sp.
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Falconaumanni
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Synchysidendron sp. 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 itFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.