Gangamopteris major
No picture of Gangamopteris major 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 Gangamopteris major, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GangamopterisPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 47 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Gangamopteris major 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
10 occurrences- Permian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Gangamopteris major has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gangamopteris major and its relatives
PermianWhere Gangamopteris major and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
119 taxa- Gangamopteris cyclopteroides8 sites
- Cordaites spatulata5 sites
- Glossopteris communis5 sites
- Samaropsis3 sites
- Vertebraria indica3 sites
- Cordaicarpus2 sites
- Florinites2 sites
- Gangamopteris buriadica2 sites
- Gangamopteris clarkeana2 sites
- Gangamopteris intermedia2 sites
- Gangamopteris oblanceolata2 sites
- Glossopteris indica2 sites
- Glossopteris obliqua2 sites
- Granulatisporites2 sites
- Laevigatosporites2 sites
- Lueckisporites2 sites
- Noeggerathiopsis2 sites
- Pityosporites2 sites
- Plicatipollenites diffusus2 sites
- Punctatisporites2 sites
- Raistrickia2 sites
- Samaropsis goraiensis2 sites
- Schizoneura gondwanensis2 sites
- Alisporites oblongus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Gangamopteris major, 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
2 references- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants6
- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 2: Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Megafossils4
Each of the 10 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
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No picture of Gangamopteris major 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 Gangamopteris major, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gangamopteris major 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 itGangamopteris through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Feistmantel 1879