Pecopteris (Alethopteris)

Searched as Alethopteris zeilleri. The Paleobiology Database treats Pecopteris (Alethopteris) as the accepted name.

No picture of Pecopteris (Alethopteris) was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pecopteris (Alethopteris) itself, so it was not used. 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 Pecopteris (Alethopteris), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 1.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 300.3 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307.4 Mya to 293.52 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPermian307–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 2 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300.3 Mya – 298.9 Mya307.9 Mya293 Mya

5 occurrences of Pecopteris (Alethopteris) 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

5 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

2 formations

Vrchlabí — 50.63°N, 15.61°EGreat Seams — 46.68°N, 4.36°E

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The named rock units Pecopteris (Alethopteris) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pecopteris (Alethopteris) and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Pecopteris (Alethopteris) and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

980 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 147 sites for Pecopteris (Alethopteris), 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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

Media content1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No picture of Pecopteris (Alethopteris) was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pecopteris (Alethopteris) itself, so it was not used.

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 Pecopteris (Alethopteris), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPecopteris through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sternberg 1825)