Cardiopteridium
No picture of Cardiopteridium 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 Cardiopteridium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PteridophytaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 60 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Cardiopteridium 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
9 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
4 formations
- Pottsville Formation6
- Tar Springs Formation1
- Glencartholm Volcanic Formation · Upper Border Group1
- Pettycur Volcanics Formation · Upper Oil Shale Group1
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The named rock units Cardiopteridium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cardiopteridium and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Cardiopteridium and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Sphenopteris3 sites
- Lepidodendron2 sites
- Sphenopteridium2 sites
- Acanthracochaerilus palustris1 site
- Adiantites1 site
- Archaeocalamites radiatus1 site
- Bythotrepis acicularis1 site
- Bythotrepis plumosa1 site
- Bythotrepis scotica1 site
- Bythotrepis simplex1 site
- Carpolithes1 site
- Centromachus euglyptus1 site
- Eskdalia minuta1 site
- Eskiscorpio parvus1 site
- Gigantoscorpio willsi1 site
- Lepidocarpon1 site
- Lepidostrobophyllum1 site
- Lepidostrobus ornatus1 site
- Lycopodites1 site
- Pothocites1 site
- Rhacopteris1 site
- Rhodeopteridium1 site
- Spathulopteris1 site
- Spathulopteris obovata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cardiopteridium, 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- A paleontological study of an Early Pennsylvanian forest preserved above the Blue Creek Coal seam, Pottsville, Formation, Northwestern Alabama6
- Palaeozoic Palaeobotany of Great Britain1
- The Sedimentology, Palaeoecology and Preservation of the Lower Carboniferous Plant Deposits at Pettycur, Fife, Scotland1
- Distribution of Fossil Plant Taxa in the Upper Mississippian and Lower Pennsylvanian of the Illinois Basin1
Each of the 9 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 content0
No picture of Cardiopteridium 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 Cardiopteridium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cardiopteridium 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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What may have been alongside itPteridophyta through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nathorst 1914