Gleichenites gracilis
No picture of Gleichenites gracilis 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 Gleichenites gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GleichenitesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 161 million years on record.
The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 56 Mya.
3 occurrences of Gleichenites gracilis on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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 Gleichenites gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gleichenites gracilis and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Gleichenites gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Alnus1 site
- Aralia1 site
- Asplenium dicksonianum1 site
- Baieroxylon graminovillae1 site
- Bauhinia1 site
- Beringiaphyllum cupanioides1 site
- Betula1 site
- Betula prisca1 site
- Camptopteris1 site
- Carpolithes arcticus1 site
- Celastrophyllum1 site
- Cercidiphyllum1 site
- Chaetoptelea microphylla1 site
- Cinnamomun heeri1 site
- Cissus marginata1 site
- Cladophlebis1 site
- Clathropteris1 site
- Corylus fosteri1 site
- Credneria1 site
- Ctenis1 site
- Cupressus1 site
- Cyatheites1 site
- Cyclocarya1 site
- Danaeopsis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Gleichenites gracilis, 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- A catalogue of Cenozoic megafossil plants in China1
- Triassic Floras of Eurasia1
- Upper Cretaceous Plants from Patagonia1
Each of the 3 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 Gleichenites gracilis 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 Gleichenites gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gleichenites gracilis 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 itGleichenites through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heer 1868