Selaginellites gracilis

Searched as Cheirolepis gracilis. The Paleobiology Database treats Selaginellites gracilis as the accepted name.

No picture of Selaginellites gracilis 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 Selaginellites gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SelaginellitesPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 231 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Devonian — about 5 of 10 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 10 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 10 occurrences416–407 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences407–397 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences397–388 Mya — about 4 occurrences388–379 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–147 Mya — about 3 occurrences147–138 Mya — about 1 occurrence393.47 Mya161.5 Mya416 Mya138 Mya

10 occurrences of Selaginellites gracilis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

4 formations

Rajmahal — 25.23°N, 87.49°ERajmahal — 24.54°N, 87.57°EPärnu — 58.39°N, 24.50°ENarva — 59.38°N, 28.19°EGorodok — 55.46°N, 29.98°E

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The named rock units Selaginellites gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Selaginellites gracilis and its relatives

Devonian

Where Selaginellites gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

137 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Selaginellites gracilis, 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Selaginellites gracilis 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 Selaginellites gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Selaginellites gracilis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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. (Oldham and Morris 1863)