Glossopteris retifera
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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.
12 occurrences of Glossopteris retifera 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
12 occurrences- Permian83%
- Early Triassic17%
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
6 formations
- Raniganj Formation2
- Damuda Series Formation1
- Kamthi Formation1
- Pachwara Formation1
- Maitur Formation1
- Panchet Formation1
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The named rock units Glossopteris retifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Glossopteris retifera and its relatives
PermianWhere Glossopteris retifera and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
291 taxa- Glossopteris angustifolia9 sites
- Glossopteris communis8 sites
- Glossopteris conspicua7 sites
- Schizoneura gondwanensis7 sites
- Glossopteris damudica6 sites
- Glossopteris indica6 sites
- Gangamopteris5 sites
- Glossopteris intermedia4 sites
- Sphenopteris polymorpha4 sites
- Trizygia speciosa4 sites
- Vertebraria indica4 sites
- Asansolia phegopteroides3 sites
- Cordaites hislopi3 sites
- Glossopteris browniana3 sites
- Glossopteris elongata3 sites
- Glossopteris nimishea3 sites
- Glossopteris stricta3 sites
- Neomariopteris hughesi3 sites
- Neomariopteris lobifolia3 sites
- Raniganjia bengalensis3 sites
- Rhabdotaenia danaeoides3 sites
- Samaropsis3 sites
- Dichotomopteris ovata2 sites
- Equisetales2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Glossopteris retifera, 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 Plants9
- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 2: Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Megafossils2
- Sobre la flora de Glossopteris del Bajo de la Leona, Santa Cruz, Patagonia1
Each of the 12 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 retifera 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 retifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glossopteris retifera 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