Glossopteris communis

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 128 million years on record.

The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 80 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 80 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 73 of 80 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 5 of 80 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 80 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 80 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 80 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 80 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 80 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 80 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 80 occurrences364–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355–346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346–337 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences337–328 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences328–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–310 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences310–301 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences301–292 Mya — about 9 occurrences292–283 Mya — about 21 occurrences283–274 Mya — about 15 occurrences274–266 Mya — about 3 occurrences266–257 Mya — about 12 occurrences257–248 Mya — about 18 occurrences248–239 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences167–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–140 Mya — about 0.1 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 occurrences290.1 Mya161.5 Mya364 Mya95 Mya

80 occurrences of Glossopteris communis 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

80 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

15 formations

Barakar — 23.80°N, 85.20°EBarakar — 23.90°N, 87.00°EBarakar — 24.53°N, 87.47°EBarakar — 25.74°N, 89.89°EBarakar — 24.55°N, 87.46°ETalchir — 23.80°N, 85.20°ETalchir — 24.20°N, 82.70°EKarharbari — 23.80°N, 84.60°EKarharbari — 23.40°N, 80.90°ERaniganj — 23.90°N, 87.00°ERaniganj — 23.80°N, 85.20°EMamal — 34.01°N, 75.31°EDamuda Series — 22.47°N, 78.43°EKamthi — 21.00°N, 84.71°EDubrajpur — 24.32°N, 87.27°EJabalpur — 23.11°N, 80.13°EPali — 23.30°N, 81.30°EParsora — 23.39°N, 81.00°EPanchet — 23.83°N, 83.28°EMaitur — 23.71°N, 86.93°EPachwara — 24.65°N, 87.70°EBhareli — 27.21°N, 92.67°E

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The named rock units Glossopteris communis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 56 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glossopteris communis and its relatives

Permian

Where Glossopteris communis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

523 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Glossopteris communis, 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

Each of the 80 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

Media content0

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

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Glossopteris communis 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 Glossopteris communis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Glossopteris communis 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 itGlossopteris through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Feistmantel 1876