Hymenophyllites

Hymenophyllites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FilicalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 161 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 11 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 6 of 11 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 11 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 11 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 11 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 11 occurrences363–356 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences356–348 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences348–341 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences341–333 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences333–326 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences326–318 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences318–311 Mya — about 2 occurrences311–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences191–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–176 Mya — about 2 occurrences176–169 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–154 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences154–146 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences146–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323.4 Mya161.5 Mya363 Mya139 Mya

11 occurrences of Hymenophyllites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

11 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

Lancaster — 45.24°N, 66.08°WKamenka Suite — 49.10°N, 37.30°ERajmahal — 25.03°N, 87.59°E

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The named rock units Hymenophyllites 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.

Hymenophyllites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Hymenophyllites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

153 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Hymenophyllites, 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

6 references

Each of the 11 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 content1

Picture of Hymenophyllites

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Hymenophyllites 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 itFilicales through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Göppert 1836