Calathospermum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PteridospermophytaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 36 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Calathospermum 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
4 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
- Garlton Hills Volcanics Formation · Lower Lothian Calciferous Sandstone Measures (Series) Group1
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The named rock units Calathospermum 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.
Calathospermum and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Calathospermum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Lyginorachis4 sites
- Salpingostoma dasu3 sites
- Triradioxylon primaevum3 sites
- Amyelon2 sites
- Bilignea solida2 sites
- Buteoxylon gordonianum2 sites
- Calathopteris heterophylla2 sites
- Eosperma oxroadense2 sites
- Eristophyton2 sites
- Genomosperma2 sites
- Lepidodendron2 sites
- Lyginorachis papilio2 sites
- Oxroadia gracilis2 sites
- Stamnostoma huttonense2 sites
- Tantallosperma setigera2 sites
- Telangium2 sites
- Tetrastichia2 sites
- Tristichia ovensi2 sites
- Alcicornopteris1 site
- Archaeocalamites1 site
- Bilignea1 site
- Calamopitys1 site
- cf. Melissiotheca sp.1 site
- Cladoxylon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Calathospermum, 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- Distribution of anatomically-preserved floras in the Lower Carboniferous in Western Europe3
- A reappraisal of the Dinantian floras at Oxroad Bay, East Lothian, Scotland. 1. Floristics and the development of whole-plant concepts1
Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Calathospermum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Calathospermum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itPteridospermophyta through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walton 1940