Anisophyton cf. gothanii
Anisophyton was a genus of Early Devonian land plant with branching axes. Known fossils are of Emsian age.
No picture of Anisophyton cf. gothanii was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Anisophyton cf. gothanii firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 38 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Anisophyton cf. gothanii 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
2 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
- Grès d'Acoz/Grès de Wepion Formation2
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The named rock units Anisophyton cf. gothanii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anisophyton cf. gothanii and its relatives
DevonianWhere Anisophyton cf. gothanii and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Dawsonites1 site
- Dawsonites arcuatus1 site
- Drepanophycus gaspianus1 site
- Drepanophycus spinaeformis1 site
- Foozia minuta1 site
- Prototaxites1 site
- Psilophyton1 site
- Psilophyton princeps1 site
- Sporogonites exuberans1 site
- Taeniocrada1 site
- Urpicalis steemansii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Anisophyton cf. gothanii, 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- Deuterophyton stockmansii gen. et sp. nov. from the Lower Devonian of Belgium and the recognition of a new group of early vascular plants1
- Vegetaux Eodevoniens de la Belgique1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Anisophyton cf. gothanii was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Anisophyton cf. gothanii firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Anisophyton cf. gothanii 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Anisophyton”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
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.