Gnafalea jeffersonii
No picture of Gnafalea jeffersonii was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Gnafalea jeffersonii firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 43 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Gnafalea jeffersonii on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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- Early Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
- Neptune Glacier Formation · Fossil Bluff Group3
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The named rock units Gnafalea jeffersonii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gnafalea jeffersonii and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Gnafalea jeffersonii and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Aculea2 sites
- Cladophlebis2 sites
- Araliaephyllum quinquelobatus1 site
- Araucarites1 site
- Brachyphyllum1 site
- Coniopteris1 site
- Dicotylophyllum1 site
- Ginkgoites1 site
- Hausmannia papilio1 site
- Ptilophyllum1 site
- Taeniopteris1 site
- Timothyia trinervis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Gnafalea jeffersonii, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Gnafalea jeffersonii was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Gnafalea jeffersonii firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Gnafalea jeffersonii 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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What may have been alongside itFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.