Glenopteris
No picture of Glenopteris was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Glenopteris itself, so it was not used. 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 Glenopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PteridophytaPBDB
- 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.
9 occurrences of Glenopteris 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
9 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
- Wellington Formation · Sumner Group8
- Abo Formation1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Glenopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Glenopteris and its relatives
PermianWhere Glenopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Callipteris3 sites
- Spermopteris coriacea3 sites
- Sphenophyllum3 sites
- Callipteris conferta2 sites
- Walchia2 sites
- Araucarites1 site
- Botryococcus braunii1 site
- Brachyphyllum1 site
- Carpolithes1 site
- Cladophlebis1 site
- Cordaites1 site
- Cycadospadix1 site
- Eukaryota1 site
- Noeggerathia1 site
- Phasmatocycas kansana1 site
- Poacordaites1 site
- Sandrewia texana1 site
- Scolecopteris elegans1 site
- Spermatophyta1 site
- Sphenopteris1 site
- Supaia thinnfeldioides1 site
- Ullmannia1 site
- Voltzia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Glenopteris, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- The characters of the fossil plant Gigantopteris Schenk and its occurrence in North America6
- Taeniopterid lamina on Phasmatocycas megasporophylls (Cycadales) from the Lower Permian of Kansas, U. S. A.2
- Plant fossils and lithostratigraphy of the Abo Formation (Lower Permian)in the Socorro area and plant biostratigraphy of Abo red beds in New Mexico1
Each of the 9 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Glenopteris was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Glenopteris itself, so it was not used.
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 Glenopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glenopteris 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 itPteridophyta through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sellards 1900