Cordaites

Cordaites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 187 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 170.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 168.2 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 620 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 101 of 620 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 509 of 620 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 3 of 620 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 620 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 620 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 620 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 620 occurrences387–379 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences379–372 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences372–364 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences364–357 Mya — about 2 occurrences357–349 Mya — about 6 occurrences349–342 Mya — about 7 occurrences342–335 Mya — about 7 occurrences335–327 Mya — about 6 occurrences327–320 Mya — about 10 occurrences320–312 Mya — about 29 occurrences312–305 Mya — about 18 occurrences305–298 Mya — about 30 occurrences298–290 Mya — about 86 occurrences290–283 Mya — about 75 occurrences283–275 Mya — about 75 occurrences275–268 Mya — about 90 occurrences268–260 Mya — about 79 occurrences260–253 Mya — about 85 occurrences253–246 Mya — about 10 occurrences246–238 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences238–231 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences231–223 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences223–216 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences216–208 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences208–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–194 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences194–186 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences186–179 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences179–171 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences171–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences358.86 Mya170.9 Mya387 Mya164 Mya

620 occurrences of Cordaites on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

620 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

170 formations

Shanxi — 39.60°N, 111.00°EShanxi — 38.00°N, 114.00°EShanxi — 41.80°N, 126.50°EShanxi — 34.20°N, 113.50°EShanxi — 38.80°N, 105.60°EShanxi — 41.20°N, 123.80°EShanxi — 40.70°N, 120.80°EShanxi — 38.80°N, 99.60°EShanxi — 38.50°N, 102.20°EShanxi — 38.20°N, 106.40°EShanxi — 36.00°N, 106.30°EShanxi — 36.80°N, 118.10°EShanxi — 39.40°N, 111.00°EShanxi — 35.10°N, 117.20°EShanxi — 36.37°N, 113.28°ETaragaiskaya Suite — 63.20°N, 118.80°ETaragaiskaya Suite — 63.40°N, 121.80°ETaiyuan — 40.00°N, 118.00°ETaiyuan — 38.20°N, 100.20°ETaiyuan — 41.80°N, 126.50°ETaiyuan — 37.50°N, 114.60°ETaiyuan — 34.70°N, 116.60°ETaiyuan — 39.70°N, 106.80°ETaiyuan — 38.80°N, 99.60°ETaiyuan — 34.20°N, 113.50°ETaiyuan — 41.20°N, 123.80°ETaiyuan — 38.80°N, 105.60°ETaiyuan — 36.00°N, 106.30°ETaiyuan — 39.40°N, 111.00°EKhariyasskaya Suite — 63.20°N, 118.80°EKhariyasskaya Suite — 63.40°N, 121.80°EKarharbari — 23.20°N, 82.30°EKarharbari — 24.20°N, 84.40°EKarharbari — 24.50°N, 86.70°EKarharbari — 23.80°N, 85.20°EKarharbari — 23.34°N, 81.04°EKarharbari — 23.90°N, 87.00°EKarharbari — 23.40°N, 80.90°EKarharbari — 24.30°N, 86.20°EKarharbari — 23.80°N, 84.60°ENoyansomonskaya Suite — 43.40°N, 102.20°ELower Abrekskaya Suite — 42.90°N, 132.30°ELower Abrekskaya Suite — 43.00°N, 131.80°EKhomustakhskaya Suite — 63.20°N, 118.80°EKhomustakhskaya Suite — 63.40°N, 121.80°ELongtan — 30.80°N, 118.70°ELongtan — 27.70°N, 111.70°ELongtan — 27.00°N, 113.30°ELongtan — 31.30°N, 120.60°EUldzinskaya Suite — 47.80°N, 110.40°EKhanuiskaya Suite — 49.30°N, 102.90°EKhanuiskaya Suite — 49.80°N, 106.90°ELower Pospelovskaya Suite — 43.00°N, 131.00°ELower Pospelovskaya Suite — 45.00°N, 131.80°ELower Pospelovskaya Suite — 43.00°N, 131.80°ELower Pospelovskaya Suite — 43.00°N, 131.90°ELoglorskaya Suite — 62.60°N, 120.60°EPotokoiskaya Suite — 71.20°N, 104.40°EVryheid — 26.50°S, 30.00°EVryheid — 26.50°S, 28.00°EVryheid — 25.50°S, 28.50°EVryheid — 27.50°S, 31.00°EVryheid — 26.00°S, 27.50°ETalchir — 23.80°N, 84.60°ETalchir — 23.80°N, 85.20°ETalchir — 23.30°N, 81.10°ETalchir — 24.20°N, 82.70°EKemerovskaya Suite — 54.40°N, 83.30°EShadrovskaya Suite — 71.30°N, 52.20°ETab-Yuskaya Suite — 69.60°N, 63.60°EBarakar — 34.10°N, 74.90°EBarakar — 23.90°N, 87.00°EBarakar — 23.80°N, 85.20°EBarakar — 23.30°N, 81.10°EGadzarskaya Suite — 49.20°N, 113.40°EKoshelevskaya Suite — 57.40°N, 57.70°EKoshelevskaya Suite — 57.50°N, 58.30°EKoshelevskaya Suite — 57.00°N, 58.20°ELower Gusinozemelskaya Suite — 71.20°N, 52.80°EKyundeiskaya Suite — 63.20°N, 118.80°EKyundeiskaya Suite — 63.40°N, 121.80°E

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The named rock units Cordaites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 146 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 219 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cordaites and its relatives

Permian

Where Cordaites and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

670 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 384 sites for Cordaites, and this reads 240 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

146 references

Each of the 620 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. 134 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Cordaites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itCordaitanthales through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Unger 1850