Calamodendron

Calamodendron

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 306 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 290.1 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 10 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 9 of 10 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 10 occurrencesPermian360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–355 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences353–351 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences351–348 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences348–346 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences344–341 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences339–336 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–332 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences329–327 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences327–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences313–310 Mya — about 3 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 3 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 2 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–293 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences293–291 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences306 Mya293.52 Mya360 Mya289 Mya

10 occurrences of Calamodendron 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

10 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

Carbondale — 38.18°N, 87.33°WRenière — 46.64°N, 3.04°E

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The named rock units Calamodendron has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Calamodendron and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Calamodendron and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Calamodendron, 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

4 references

Each of the 10 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

Picture of Calamodendron

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1849