Glossopteris ampla
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlossopterisPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
3 occurrences of Glossopteris ampla 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
3 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
- Vryheid Formation · Middle Ecca Group1
- Raniganj Formation1
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The named rock units Glossopteris ampla 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.
Glossopteris ampla and its relatives
PermianWhere Glossopteris ampla and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
237 taxa- Cordaites hislopi2 sites
- Gangamopteris cyclopteroides2 sites
- Glossopteris indica2 sites
- Neomariopteris lobifolia2 sites
- Ottokaria2 sites
- Palaeovittaria kurzi2 sites
- Sphenopteris polymorpha2 sites
- Acanthotriletes1 site
- Alethopteris whitbyensis1 site
- Anapiculatisporites1 site
- Annularia1 site
- Araucarioxylon1 site
- Arberia1 site
- Arberiales1 site
- Arberiella vulgaris1 site
- Asansolia1 site
- Asansolia phegopteroides1 site
- Asterotheca1 site
- Australoxylon1 site
- Azaniodendron fertile1 site
- Belemnopteris pellucida1 site
- Belemnopteris sagittifolia1 site
- Belemnopteris woodmasoniana1 site
- Bengalia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Glossopteris ampla, 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 referencesEach 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 Glossopteris ampla 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 Glossopteris ampla, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glossopteris ampla 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 itGlossopteris through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dana 1849