Glossopteris

No picture of Glossopteris was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Glossopteris itself, so it was not used. Wikipedia and 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 Glossopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArberialesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 137 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 1329 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 6 of 1329 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1277 of 1329 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 36 of 1329 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 1329 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 5 of 1329 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1329 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 1329 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 1329 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 1329 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 1329 occurrences364–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355–346 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences346–337 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences337–328 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences328–319 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences319–310 Mya — about 2 occurrences310–301 Mya — about 3 occurrences301–292 Mya — about 84 occurrences292–283 Mya — about 291 occurrences283–274 Mya — about 166 occurrences274–266 Mya — about 121 occurrences266–257 Mya — about 351 occurrences257–248 Mya — about 296 occurrences248–239 Mya — about 6 occurrences239–230 Mya — about 2 occurrences230–221 Mya — about 1 occurrence221–212 Mya — about 1 occurrence212–203 Mya — about 1 occurrence203–194 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences176–167 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences167–158 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences158–149 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences149–140 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences140–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298.9 Mya161.5 Mya364 Mya95 Mya

1,329 occurrences of Glossopteris 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

1,329 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

111 formations

Raniganj — 23.80°N, 84.60°ERaniganj — 23.80°N, 85.70°ERaniganj — 23.70°N, 86.30°ERaniganj — 23.80°N, 85.20°ERaniganj — 23.60°N, 83.40°ERaniganj — 23.90°N, 87.00°ERaniganj — 23.30°N, 81.10°ERaniganj — 23.65°N, 87.18°EBarakar — 23.80°N, 84.60°EBarakar — 23.80°N, 85.70°EBarakar — 23.20°N, 82.30°EBarakar — 23.80°N, 85.20°EBarakar — 34.10°N, 74.90°EBarakar — 24.60°N, 87.50°EBarakar — 23.30°N, 81.10°EBarakar — 23.90°N, 87.00°EBarakar — 21.00°N, 85.20°EBarakar — 24.53°N, 87.47°EBarakar — 23.76°N, 84.45°EBarakar — 23.69°N, 85.32°EBarakar — 25.74°N, 89.89°EBarakar — 23.66°N, 85.37°EKarharbari — 27.20°N, 92.90°EKarharbari — 23.80°N, 84.60°EKarharbari — 23.20°N, 82.30°EKarharbari — 24.20°N, 84.40°EKarharbari — 24.50°N, 86.70°EKarharbari — 24.30°N, 86.20°EKarharbari — 23.80°N, 85.20°EKarharbari — 33.00°N, 75.30°EKarharbari — 23.34°N, 81.04°EKarharbari — 23.40°N, 80.90°EKarharbari — 24.06°N, 86.91°EKamthi — 23.80°N, 86.10°EKamthi — 21.10°N, 79.10°EKamthi — 21.00°N, 84.71°EKamthi — 19.74°N, 79.56°EKamthi — 21.14°N, 78.77°EPali — 24.30°N, 82.00°EPali — 24.12°N, 81.86°EPali — 23.30°N, 81.30°EPachwara — 24.60°N, 87.50°EPachwara — 24.53°N, 87.49°EPachwara — 24.65°N, 87.70°ERio do Rasto — 28.30°S, 49.50°WRio do Rasto — 27.00°S, 50.00°WRio do Rasto — 25.50°S, 51.00°WRio do Rasto — 25.90°S, 50.90°WIllawara Coal Measures — 34.40°S, 150.90°ERio Bonito — 28.70°S, 49.30°WRio Bonito — 31.60°S, 53.90°WRio Bonito — 30.70°S, 53.20°WRio Bonito — 30.10°S, 51.70°WRio Bonito — 30.40°S, 52.20°WRio Bonito — 28.42°S, 49.44°WHinjir — 20.95°N, 84.69°EHinjir — 24.30°N, 86.60°EEstcourt — 28.33°S, 29.33°EEstcourt — 28.50°S, 29.17°EEstcourt — 28.67°S, 29.33°EEstcourt — 28.83°S, 29.67°EEstcourt — 29.00°S, 29.83°EEstcourt — 29.17°S, 30.00°EEstcourt — 29.33°S, 30.00°EEstcourt — 29.50°S, 30.17°EEstcourt — 29.50°S, 30.00°EEstcourt — 29.80°S, 29.79°EEstcourt — 28.50°S, 32.00°EBandanna — 24.70°S, 147.30°EBandanna — 25.00°S, 150.00°EPolarstar — 77.50°S, 86.00°WReids Dome Beds — 24.70°S, 148.30°EReids Dome Beds — 25.60°S, 149.80°EMacMillan - Fair Hill — 23.30°S, 148.80°EBurngrove — 23.30°S, 148.80°EKulti — 23.70°N, 86.30°EKulti — 23.80°N, 85.20°EKulti — 23.90°N, 87.00°EBlack Alley Shale — 24.70°S, 147.30°ERangal Coal Measures — 23.30°S, 148.80°ENewcastle Coal Measures equiv. — 33.00°S, 151.00°EMadumabisa Mudstones — 17.80°S, 28.10°EMadumabisa Mudstones — 18.30°S, 26.90°EWaterford — 33.10°S, 22.53°EWaterford — 33.07°S, 22.40°EWaterford — 33.20°S, 22.48°ELower La Golondrina — 48.00°S, 68.00°WBijou — 22.50°N, 78.00°E

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The named rock units Glossopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 87 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 359 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glossopteris and its relatives

Permian

Where Glossopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

776 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 333 sites for Glossopteris, 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

91 references

Each of the 1,329 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. 79 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No picture of Glossopteris was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Glossopteris itself, so it was not used.

Wikipedia and 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 Glossopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1828