Dichotomopteris falcata

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 108 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 143.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Permian — about 2 of 4 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrences270–264 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences264–259 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences259–253 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences253–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–138 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–132 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences132–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251.902 Mya143.1 Mya270 Mya97 Mya

4 occurrences of Dichotomopteris falcata on record. 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

4 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

1 formation

Raniganj — 23.90°N, 87.00°E

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The named rock units Dichotomopteris falcata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

225 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dichotomopteris falcata, 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

Each of the 4 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

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No picture of Dichotomopteris falcata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Dichotomopteris falcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dichotomopteris falcata 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itDichotomopteris through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Maithy 1974