Glossopteris conspicua
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlossopterisPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 247 Mya.
14 occurrences of Glossopteris conspicua 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
14 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
7 formations
- Raniganj Formation2
- Barakar Formation1
- Motur Formation1
- Damuda Series Formation1
- Kamthi Formation1
- Maitur Formation1
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The named rock units Glossopteris conspicua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Glossopteris conspicua and its relatives
PermianWhere Glossopteris conspicua and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
296 taxa- Glossopteris communis10 sites
- Glossopteris angustifolia8 sites
- Glossopteris indica8 sites
- Glossopteris retifera7 sites
- Schizoneura gondwanensis7 sites
- Samaropsis6 sites
- Vertebraria indica6 sites
- Glossopteris damudica5 sites
- Sphenopteris polymorpha5 sites
- Gangamopteris4 sites
- Glossopteris formosa4 sites
- Trizygia speciosa4 sites
- Asansolia phegopteroides3 sites
- Dictyopteridium3 sites
- Gangamopteris cyclopteroides3 sites
- Glossopteris browniana3 sites
- Rhabdotaenia danaeoides3 sites
- Sphenophyllum3 sites
- Cordaites2 sites
- Cordaites hislopi2 sites
- Glossopteris elongata2 sites
- Glossopteris ingens2 sites
- Glossopteris intermedia2 sites
- Glossopteris raniganjensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Glossopteris conspicua, 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 Indian Fossil Plants10
- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 2: Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Megafossils3
- Sobre la flora de Glossopteris del Bajo de la Leona, Santa Cruz, Patagonia1
Each of the 14 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Glossopteris conspicua 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 conspicua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glossopteris conspicua 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 1880