Gosslingia
No picture of Gosslingia 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 Gosslingia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PsilophytalesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 27 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Gosslingia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
7 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
- Beartooth Butte Formation2
- Senni bed Formation1
- Senni Beds Formation1
- Grès de Wiheries Formation1
- Grès du Bois d'Ausse Formation1
- Senni Formation1
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The named rock units Gosslingia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gosslingia and its relatives
DevonianWhere Gosslingia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Drepanophycus3 sites
- Emphanisporites2 sites
- ? Cymbosporites senex1 site
- <Morphotype III>1 site
- Althaspis senniensis1 site
- Aneurospora indet.1 site
- Apiculiretispora sp.1 site
- Apiculiretusispora1 site
- Cardipeltis bryanti1 site
- Cardipeltis richardsoni1 site
- Cosmaspis transversa1 site
- Cymbosporites proteus1 site
- Dictyotriletes1 site
- Emphanisporites rotatus1 site
- Euphyllophytina1 site
- Lampraspis tuberculata1 site
- Pachytheca indet.1 site
- Paleocuticularia perforata n. gen. n. sp.1 site
- Protaspis (Protaspis) brevispina1 site
- Protaspis (Protaspis) mcgrewi1 site
- Prototaxites1 site
- Psilophyton1 site
- Retusotriletes1 site
- Retusotriletes simplex1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Gosslingia, 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
7 references- SUNY-Binghamton Paleobiology Collection1
- Chapter 4. Early Devonian fossil fishes sites of the Welsh Borders1
- Inventaire Des Vegetaux Eodevoniens de Belgique1
- La micro- et macroflore du Dedinnien de la Gileppe, Synclinorium de la Vesdre, Belgique1
- A Fossil Flora from the Beartooth Butte Formation of Northern Wyoming1
- The Lower Devonian flora of the Senni Beds of Monmouthsire and Breconshire1
- On Old Red Sandstone plants showing structure from Brecon (South Wales)1
Each of the 7 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 Gosslingia 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 Gosslingia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gosslingia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPsilophytales through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heard 1927