Benlightfootia

No picture of Benlightfootia was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Benlightfootia 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlantaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 251.1 Mya.

Permian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences252–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274.4 Mya259.857 Mya283.9 Mya250.5 Mya

3 occurrences of Benlightfootia on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

3 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

Estcourt — 29.00°S, 29.83°EEstcourt — 29.17°S, 30.00°EWankie Sandstone — 18.40°S, 26.40°E

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The named rock units Benlightfootia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Benlightfootia and its relatives

Permian

Where Benlightfootia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

30 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Benlightfootia, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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 Benlightfootia was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Benlightfootia 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 Benlightfootia 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lacey and Huard-Moine 1966