Gigantopteris

No picture of Gigantopteris 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 Gigantopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GigantopteridaceaePBDB
Diet
C3 autotrophPBDB, for Gigantopteridales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Gigantopteridales
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Gigantopteridales

Time the record covers

At least 71 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 251.1 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 97 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 9 of 97 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 87 of 97 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 97 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences339–335 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences335–331 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences331–327 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences327–324 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences324–320 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences320–316 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences316–312 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences312–309 Mya — about 1 occurrence309–305 Mya — about 1 occurrence305–301 Mya — about 1 occurrence301–298 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences298–294 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences294–290 Mya — about 2 occurrences290–286 Mya — about 3 occurrences286–283 Mya — about 3 occurrences283–279 Mya — about 2 occurrences279–275 Mya — about 2 occurrences275–271 Mya — about 1 occurrence271–268 Mya — about 1 occurrence268–264 Mya — about 6 occurrences264–260 Mya — about 11 occurrences260–256 Mya — about 29 occurrences256–253 Mya — about 23 occurrences253–249 Mya — about 3 occurrences323.4 Mya251.902 Mya361 Mya249 Mya

97 occurrences of Gigantopteris 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

97 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

38 formations

Longtan — 30.80°N, 118.70°ELongtan — 30.80°N, 119.40°ELongtan — 30.20°N, 114.90°ELongtan — 27.70°N, 111.70°ELongtan — 27.00°N, 113.30°ELongtan — 24.70°N, 110.60°ELongtan — 31.40°N, 119.50°ELongtan — 31.30°N, 120.60°ELongtan — 26.30°N, 105.90°EWulinshan — 29.80°N, 119.70°EWulinshan — 28.70°N, 118.60°EWulinshan — 28.30°N, 117.70°ECuipingshan — 24.30°N, 116.10°ECuipingshan — 24.70°N, 116.70°ETongzhiyan — 25.10°N, 113.60°ETongzhiyan — 24.20°N, 115.80°ETongzhiyan — 25.80°N, 116.70°EBelle Plains — 30.27°N, 97.74°WBelle Plains — 33.63°N, 98.95°WBelle Plains — 32.50°N, 99.20°WToba — 31.30°N, 97.70°EYinping — 31.60°N, 117.80°EYinping — 30.80°N, 119.40°EXuanwei — 26.30°N, 104.20°EXuanwei — 25.63°N, 104.42°ELoping — 28.20°N, 114.90°ELoping — 28.20°N, 115.80°ECoal-bearing — 39.70°N, 126.20°ECoal-bearing — 39.40°N, 126.90°ESaginaw — 42.75°N, 84.77°WEnid — 36.73°N, 97.47°WCumberland — 45.67°N, 62.70°WGuacamaya — 23.80°N, 99.30°WWichita — 33.69°N, 99.03°WWaggoner Ranch — 33.67°N, 99.02°WWinfield — 36.28°N, 97.28°WGufeng — 30.80°N, 120.20°EGutian — 25.00°N, 112.40°EDong — 24.80°N, 113.60°EKaishantun — 42.60°N, 129.80°EShahu — 22.20°N, 112.30°EQiupo — 25.00°N, 112.40°ELongtan equiv. — 28.50°N, 98.80°E

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The named rock units Gigantopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gigantopteris and its relatives

Permian

Where Gigantopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

200 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 72 sites for Gigantopteris, 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

38 references

Each of the 97 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. 26 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 content0

No picture of Gigantopteris 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 Gigantopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Gigantopteris 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.

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What may have been alongside itGigantopteridaceae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geyler 1886