Glossopteris formosa

No picture of Glossopteris formosa 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 formosa, 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 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPermian — about 6 of 6 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences256–254 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274.4 Mya259.857 Mya299.8 Mya251 Mya

6 occurrences of Glossopteris formosa 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

6 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

3 formations

Raniganj — 23.90°N, 87.00°ERaniganj — 23.80°N, 85.20°EBhareli — 27.21°N, 92.67°EBarakar — 24.53°N, 87.47°E

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The named rock units Glossopteris formosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glossopteris formosa and its relatives

Permian

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

Found in the same rock

228 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Glossopteris formosa, 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 references

Each of the 6 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

Media content0

No picture of Glossopteris formosa 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 formosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Glossopteris formosa 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Feistmantel 1881