Cordaites spatulata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CordaitesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 53 million years on record.
The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
26 occurrences of Cordaites spatulata 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
26 occurrencesThese 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
- Karharbari Formation2
- Colinlea Sandstone Formation · Back Creek Group1
- Talchir Formation1
- Parsora Formation1
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The named rock units Cordaites spatulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cordaites spatulata and its relatives
PermianWhere Cordaites spatulata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
183 taxa- Gangamopteris cyclopteroides11 sites
- Glossopteris communis11 sites
- Vertebraria indica8 sites
- Glossopteris indica7 sites
- Gangamopteris major5 sites
- Glossopteris obliqua5 sites
- Gangamopteris4 sites
- Gangamopteris oblanceolata4 sites
- Glossopteris browniana4 sites
- Noeggerathiopsis hislopi4 sites
- Phyllotheca indica4 sites
- Samaropsis4 sites
- Botrychiopsis validum3 sites
- Euryphyllum whittianum3 sites
- Gangamopteris angustifolia3 sites
- Gangamopteris buriadica3 sites
- Gangamopteris clarkeana3 sites
- Glossopteris damudica3 sites
- Glossopteris decipiens3 sites
- Glossopteris leptoneura3 sites
- Noeggerathiopsis3 sites
- Pityosporites3 sites
- Plicatipollenites diffusus3 sites
- Punctatisporites3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Cordaites spatulata, 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
3 references- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 2: Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Megafossils24
- Late Permian Plant Megafossils from the Bowen Basin, Queensland, Australia: Part 11
- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants1
Each of the 26 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
Media content0
No picture of Cordaites spatulata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Cordaites spatulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cordaites spatulata was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCordaites through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dana 1849)