Cooksonia pertoni

No picture of Cooksonia pertoni was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cooksonia pertoni itself, so it was not used. Wikipedia and 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 Cooksonia pertoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Silurian — about 8 of 11 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 11 occurrencesDevonian431–430 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426.7 Mya419.62 Mya431.1 Mya412.5 Mya

11 occurrences of Cooksonia pertoni on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

11 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

7 formations

Lipeon — 21.38°S, 64.65°WLipeon — 21.89°S, 64.71°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 52.00°N, 2.00°WHollyford — 52.85°N, 7.92°WWilsonia Shales — 52.00°N, 3.00°WSt. Maughans — 52.00°N, 2.00°WRushall — 52.00°N, 2.00°WRashkovskie Beds — 48.52°N, 26.32°E

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The named rock units Cooksonia pertoni 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.

Cooksonia pertoni and its relatives

Silurian

Where Cooksonia pertoni and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

41 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cooksonia pertoni, 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

9 references

Each of the 11 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 Cooksonia pertoni was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cooksonia pertoni itself, so it was not used.

Wikipedia and 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 Cooksonia pertoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cooksonia pertoni 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 itCooksonia through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lang 1937