Walchianthus
No picture of Walchianthus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Walchianthus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ConiferalesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 264.28 Mya.
10 occurrences of Walchianthus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Carboniferous5%
- Permian95%
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 Walchianthus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Walchianthus and its relatives
PermianWhere Walchianthus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Walchia5 sites
- 'Pteridospermae' 'indet.'4 sites
- "Culmitzschia" angustifolia4 sites
- "Culmitzschia" parvifolia4 sites
- "Culmitzschia" speciosa4 sites
- Carpenteria marocana4 sites
- Cordaicarpus4 sites
- Ernestiodendron filiciforme4 sites
- Ginkgophyllum4 sites
- Lepidostrobophyllum4 sites
- Odontopteris4 sites
- Weissites4 sites
- 'Filicophyta' 'indet.'3 sites
- "Culmitzschia" laxifolia3 sites
- Annularia3 sites
- Cordaites3 sites
- Pecopteris3 sites
- Sigillariostrobus3 sites
- 'Gymnospermae' 'indet 1'2 sites
- 'Gymnospermae' 'indet. 1'2 sites
- 'Walchiaceae' 'indet.'2 sites
- "Hermitia" germanica2 sites
- Calamostachys2 sites
- Callipteris2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Walchianthus, 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- Makrofloren aus dem Unterrotliegenden (Unterperm) von Alsenz bei Bad Kreuznach/Rheinland Pfalz6
- Arenarie di Val Gardena (Permiano medio)3
- La Paleoflore Autuno-Stephanienne de la région de Demnate (est de Marrakech-Maroc)1
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 Walchianthus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Walchianthus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Walchianthus 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 itConiferales through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Florin 1940