Archaeopteridium
No picture of Archaeopteridium 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 Archaeopteridium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchaeopteridopsidaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
5 occurrences of Archaeopteridium 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- 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
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The named rock units Archaeopteridium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Archaeopteridium and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Archaeopteridium and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Cordaites4 sites
- Stigmaria ficoides3 sites
- Annularia2 sites
- Asterophyllites2 sites
- Asterophyllites charaeformis2 sites
- Calamites2 sites
- Cyperites2 sites
- Holcospermum2 sites
- Imparipteris heterophylla2 sites
- Lepidodendron aculeatum2 sites
- Lepidodendron obovatum2 sites
- Lepidostrobophyllum2 sites
- Mariopteris2 sites
- Neuralethopteris pocahontas2 sites
- Neuropteris2 sites
- Pecopteris (Alethopteris)2 sites
- Alloiopteris1 site
- Aneimites1 site
- Aulacotheca1 site
- Calamites (Mesocalamites)1 site
- Calamites radiatus1 site
- Calamostachys1 site
- Cardiocarpus1 site
- Cornutheca sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Archaeopteridium, 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- The Gymonosperm Archaeopteridium tschermakii and an associated glandular fructification from the upper Visean drybrook sandstone of Great Britain1
- Plant Fossils of the Pennsylvanian System of Georgia1
- Plant Fossils of the New River Gorge, West Virginia1
- Plant Megafossils from the Carboniferous of Georgia, U.S.A1
- A Pennsylvanian florule from the Forkston Coal in the Dutch Mountain outlier, northeastern Pennsylvania1
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
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No picture of Archaeopteridium 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 Archaeopteridium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Archaeopteridium was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itArchaeopteridopsida through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kidston 1923