Zosterophyllum

Zosterophyllum

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 99 occurrencesSilurian — about 8 of 99 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 91 of 99 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 99 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence424–421 Mya — about 3 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 5 occurrences419–416 Mya — about 5 occurrences416–413 Mya — about 13 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 51 occurrences410–407 Mya — about 2 occurrences407–404 Mya — about 2 occurrences404–401 Mya — about 2 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 2 occurrences398–395 Mya — about 2 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 2 occurrences392–389 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences389–386 Mya — about 4 occurrences386–383 Mya — about 2 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences381–378 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences378–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372–369 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences369–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences422.7 Mya387.95 Mya445 Mya357 Mya

99 occurrences of Zosterophyllum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

99 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

26 formations

Bathurst Island — 75.81°N, 98.44°WBathurst Island — 75.80°N, 98.48°WBathurst Island — 76.19°N, 98.20°WBathurst Island — 76.00°N, 98.00°WBathurst Island — 76.04°N, 98.18°WBathurst Island — 75.84°N, 98.62°WBathurst Island Beds — 75.80°N, 98.40°WPosongchong — 23.28°N, 104.25°EPosongchong — 26.00°N, 105.00°EPosongchong — 23.23°N, 103.63°EPingyiqu — 32.00°N, 105.00°EXujiachong (also called Longhuashan) — 26.00°N, 104.00°ESenni bed — 51.77°N, 2.98°WGres (et schists) de Wepion — 50.00°N, 5.00°EDundee — 56.65°N, 2.77°WWutubulake — 46.82°N, 66.62°EWutubulake — 46.78°N, 85.72°ESenni Beds — 51.95°N, 3.38°WSkala — 49.58°N, 23.90°ESkala — 49.02°N, 25.80°EBois d'Ausse Sandstone — 50.47°N, 5.73°EKacak Schichten — 50.04°N, 14.39°EKacak Schichten — 50.00°N, 14.00°ESrbsko-Schichten — 50.00°N, 14.50°EStuart Bay ""beds"" — 75.82°N, 98.40°WSt. Maughans — 52.00°N, 2.00°WDundee Flagstone — 56.00°N, 2.00°WStrathmore — 55.00°N, 4.00°WFrankelryggen — 78.00°N, 20.00°EFrenchman Spur — 35.20°S, 143.43°EWood Bay Series — 78.50°N, 18.83°ECampbellton — 48.03°N, 66.42°WAigyrzhal'skaya Suite — 47.00°N, 79.00°ERashkovskie Beds — 48.52°N, 26.32°E

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The named rock units Zosterophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Zosterophyllum and its relatives

Devonian

Where Zosterophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

160 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Zosterophyllum, 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

36 references

Each of the 99 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. 24 further references are not listed. 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

Media content1

Picture of Zosterophyllum

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

No 3D scan of Zosterophyllum 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Penhallow 1892