Alcicornopteris convoluta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AlcicornopterisPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 29 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 330.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Alcicornopteris convoluta 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
2 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
1 formation
- Horse Road Sandstone Formation · Upper Old Red Sandstone Group1
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The named rock units Alcicornopteris convoluta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Alcicornopteris convoluta and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Alcicornopteris convoluta and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Eurystoma2 sites
- Lepidodendron2 sites
- Amyelon1 site
- Cladoxylon1 site
- Diplothmema1 site
- Dolichosperma1 site
- Eristophyton1 site
- Genomosperma1 site
- Lyginopteris1 site
- Lyginorachis1 site
- Lyginorachis papilio1 site
- Lyrasperma scotica1 site
- Pitus1 site
- Pitus antiqua1 site
- Stenomyelon1 site
- Stenomyelon tuedianum1 site
- Stigmaria ficoides1 site
- Triradioxylon primaevum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Alcicornopteris convoluta, 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
2 references- Palaeozoic Palaeobotany of Great Britain1
- Eurystoma trigona sp. nov., a pteridosperm ovule borne on a frond of Alcicornopteris (Kidston)1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Alcicornopteris convoluta 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 Alcicornopteris convoluta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Alcicornopteris convoluta 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 itAlcicornopteris through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kidston 1887