Equisetophyta

Equisetophyta

Uncredited · 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
PteridophytanaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 382 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 12 of 4791 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 252 of 4791 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 553 of 4791 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 23 of 4791 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 14 of 4791 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 84 of 4791 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 154 of 4791 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 356 of 4791 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 449 of 4791 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1356 of 4791 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 914 of 4791 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 188 of 4791 occurrencesEocene — about 190 of 4791 occurrencesOligocene — about 45 of 4791 occurrencesMiocene — about 89 of 4791 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 4791 occurrencesPleistocene — about 108 of 4791 occurrences401–388 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences388–375 Mya — about 2 occurrences375–361 Mya — about 8 occurrences361–348 Mya — about 26 occurrences348–334 Mya — about 28 occurrences334–321 Mya — about 32 occurrences321–308 Mya — about 108 occurrences308–294 Mya — about 102 occurrences294–281 Mya — about 152 occurrences281–268 Mya — about 155 occurrences268–254 Mya — about 181 occurrences254–241 Mya — about 51 occurrences241–227 Mya — about 34 occurrences227–214 Mya — about 27 occurrences214–201 Mya — about 41 occurrences201–187 Mya — about 86 occurrences187–174 Mya — about 78 occurrences174–161 Mya — about 358 occurrences161–147 Mya — about 353 occurrences147–134 Mya — about 144 occurrences134–120 Mya — about 214 occurrences120–107 Mya — about 789 occurrences107–94 Mya — about 803 occurrences94–80 Mya — about 77 occurrences80–67 Mya — about 285 occurrences67–54 Mya — about 254 occurrences54–40 Mya — about 122 occurrences40–27 Mya — about 64 occurrences27–13 Mya — about 76 occurrences13–0 Mya — about 142 occurrences382.31 Mya129 ka401 Mya0 Mya

4,791 occurrences of Equisetophyta on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

4,791 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

641 formations

Riachuelo — 10.65°S, 37.04°WBurg El-Arab — 30.99°N, 27.77°EAbu Gabra — 11.03°N, 27.74°EBathurst Island — 11.79°S, 130.23°EBathurst Island — 11.78°S, 130.35°EFort Union — 46.62°N, 104.32°WFort Union — 43.70°N, 104.70°WFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WFort Union — 46.48°N, 105.67°WFort Union — 44.71°N, 106.17°WFort Union — 44.83°N, 106.09°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 106.06°WFort Union — 46.60°N, 105.68°WFort Union — 45.59°N, 105.68°WMuribeca — 10.65°S, 37.04°WBima — 12.08°N, 13.14°ETambo — 27.34°S, 135.72°ETambo — 29.13°S, 140.88°EBentiu — 11.03°N, 27.74°EDunvegan — 55.94°N, 119.94°WDunvegan — 55.92°N, 118.59°WDunvegan — 56.22°N, 120.12°WDunvegan — 55.22°N, 119.17°WDunvegan — 55.27°N, 118.63°WDunvegan — 55.78°N, 118.90°WDunvegan — 54.62°N, 118.47°WShanxi — 39.90°N, 111.80°EShanxi — 34.30°N, 116.90°EShanxi — 37.80°N, 112.20°EShanxi — 39.60°N, 111.00°EShanxi — 40.00°N, 116.20°EShanxi — 38.00°N, 114.00°EShanxi — 41.80°N, 126.50°EShanxi — 35.20°N, 109.90°EShanxi — 34.20°N, 113.50°EShanxi — 38.80°N, 105.60°EShanxi — 39.40°N, 121.80°EShanxi — 38.80°N, 99.60°EShanxi — 38.50°N, 102.20°EShanxi — 38.20°N, 106.40°EShanxi — 36.80°N, 118.10°EShanxi — 39.40°N, 111.00°EShanxi — 35.10°N, 117.20°EShanxi — 36.37°N, 113.28°ERunnymede — 37.37°S, 140.90°EChorrillo — 50.51°S, 72.56°WAllen — 38.78°S, 67.93°WAllen — 38.77°S, 68.01°WAllen — 39.44°S, 67.30°WAbu Roash — 30.99°N, 27.77°EAbu Roash — 30.00°N, 28.00°EAbu Roash — 29.00°N, 29.00°EApollonian — 4.98°N, 3.02°WBhuj — 23.79°N, 68.85°EBhuj — 23.32°N, 69.77°EBhuj — 23.60°N, 69.00°EBhuj — 23.28°N, 69.36°EBhuj — 23.22°N, 69.74°EBhuj — 23.10°N, 69.43°EBhuj — 23.68°N, 68.87°EBhuj — 23.18°N, 69.38°EBhuj — 23.31°N, 69.32°EBhuj — 23.48°N, 69.27°EBhuj — 23.39°N, 70.53°EBhuj — 23.37°N, 69.71°EBhuj — 23.20°N, 69.56°EBhuj — 23.08°N, 69.60°EBhuj — 23.08°N, 69.32°EBentiu — 9.35°N, 29.13°EKachaike — 49.15°S, 72.07°WKachaike — 49.06°S, 72.14°WKachaike — 48.82°S, 72.12°WKachaike — 48.85°S, 72.03°WKachaike — 49.00°S, 72.00°WKachaike — 48.85°S, 72.15°WKachaike — 48.85°S, 72.15°WKachaike — 48.46°S, 71.84°WAgua Doce — 3.69°S, 44.56°WMonte Chico — 51.59°S, 72.41°WMonte Chico — 51.18°S, 72.29°WHell Creek — 46.35°N, 103.87°WHell Creek — 46.39°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.14°N, 103.82°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.01°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WJabalpur — 22.50°N, 78.50°EJabalpur — 23.11°N, 80.13°EJabalpur — 23.18°N, 79.95°EJabalpur — 22.61°N, 78.04°EJabalpur — 22.37°N, 77.61°EJabalpur — 22.32°N, 77.47°EJabalpur — 23.77°N, 81.47°EJabalpur — 23.78°N, 81.45°ELa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.75°WLa Colonia — 42.52°S, 66.84°WLa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WLa Colonia — 42.50°S, 66.50°WLa Colonia — 43.02°S, 67.66°WLa Colonia — 42.97°S, 67.54°W

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The named rock units Equisetophyta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 617 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,362 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Equisetophyta and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Equisetophyta and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,299 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,121 sites for Equisetophyta, 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

699 references

Each of the 4,791 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. 687 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 Equisetophyta

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Equisetophyta 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.

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What may have been alongside itPteridophytanae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scott 1900