Dadoxylon

Dadoxylon

Babakathy · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 316 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 84 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 8 of 84 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 50 of 84 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 84 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 84 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 84 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 84 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 84 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 14 of 84 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 84 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 84 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 84 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 84 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 84 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 84 occurrences401–388 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences388–375 Mya — about 2 occurrences362–350 Mya — about 1 occurrence350–337 Mya — about 3 occurrences337–324 Mya — about 2 occurrences324–311 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences311–298 Mya — about 2 occurrences298–285 Mya — about 8 occurrences285–272 Mya — about 4 occurrences272–260 Mya — about 13 occurrences260–247 Mya — about 25 occurrences247–234 Mya — about 2 occurrences234–221 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences221–208 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences208–195 Mya — about 1 occurrence183–170 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences170–157 Mya — about 5 occurrences157–144 Mya — about 10 occurrences144–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–106 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences106–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–67 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences67–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382.31 Mya66 Mya401 Mya16 Mya

84 occurrences of Dadoxylon 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

84 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

36 formations

Kamthi — 23.80°N, 86.10°EKamthi — 19.74°N, 79.56°ERajmahal — 25.14°N, 87.50°ERajmahal — 24.52°N, 87.57°ERajmahal — 25.21°N, 87.50°ERajmahal — 25.24°N, 87.71°EBandanna — 25.00°S, 148.00°EBandanna — 24.70°S, 147.30°EBandanna — 25.00°S, 150.00°ELudlowville — 42.90°N, 78.50°WBurngrove — 23.00°S, 148.00°EBurngrove — 23.30°S, 148.80°ERangal Coal Measures — 22.00°S, 148.00°ERangal Coal Measures — 23.30°S, 148.80°EBaralaba Coal Measures — 24.00°S, 150.00°EBlack Alley Shale — 24.00°S, 148.00°EBlack Alley Shale — 24.70°S, 147.30°EKildare Capes — 46.30°N, 63.10°WB. Choiseul — 51.80°S, 58.90°WLuwumbu Coal & Madumabisa Mudstone — 10.50°S, 33.00°ERoad Canyon — 30.22°N, 103.47°WFair Hill — 23.00°S, 148.00°EBurngrove equivalents — 23.00°S, 149.00°EMacMillan — 23.00°S, 148.00°EPeawaddy — 24.00°S, 148.00°EHillsborough River — 46.30°N, 63.00°WMiminegash — 46.89°N, 64.21°WMacMillan - Fair Hill — 23.30°S, 148.80°EColinlea Sandstone — 24.20°S, 147.90°ERaniganj — 23.70°N, 86.30°EUnayzah — 26.10°N, 44.00°EMadumabisa Mudstone — 10.50°S, 33.00°EMadumabisa Mudstones — 18.30°S, 26.90°E

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The named rock units Dadoxylon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dadoxylon and its relatives

Permian

Where Dadoxylon and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

760 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Dadoxylon, 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

29 references

Each of the 84 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. 17 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 content1

Picture of Dadoxylon

Credit
Babakathy
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Endlicher 1847