Voltzia
Searched as Voltzia benkerti. The Paleobiology Database treats Voltzia as the accepted name.
No picture of Voltzia was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Voltzia itself, so it was not used. 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 Voltzia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VoltziaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 27 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 174.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Voltzia on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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- Early Jurassic100%
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.
Voltzia and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Voltzia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
673 taxa- Equisetites22 sites
- Taeniopteris18 sites
- Neuropteridium17 sites
- Pecopteris14 sites
- Pterophyllum14 sites
- Danaeopsis12 sites
- Neocalamites11 sites
- Schizoneura paradoxa11 sites
- Equisetum9 sites
- Ullmannia9 sites
- Pterophyllum jaegeri8 sites
- Schizoneura8 sites
- Yuccites vogesiacus8 sites
- Brachyphyllum7 sites
- Cladophlebis7 sites
- Lepidopteris7 sites
- Noeggerathiopsis7 sites
- Pterophyllum longifolium7 sites
- Sphenopteris7 sites
- Trachyteuthis7 sites
- Zamites7 sites
- Albertia6 sites
- Anomopteris mougeotii6 sites
- Carpolithes6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Voltzia, 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
1 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Voltzia was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Voltzia itself, so it was not used.
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 Voltzia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itVoltziaceae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1828