Iridopteris eriensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IridopterisPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Iridopteris eriensis 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
2 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
2 formations
- Tully Pyrite Formation · Hamilton Group1
- Millboro Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Iridopteris eriensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Iridopteris eriensis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Iridopteris eriensis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
3 taxa- Aneurophyton hallii1 site
- Crossia virginiana1 site
- Xenocladia medullosina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Iridopteris eriensis, 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
2 references- Iridopteris eriensis from the Middle Devonian of North America, with Systematics of Apparently Related Taxa1
- Structure and Relationships of Some Middle Devonian Plants from Western New York1
Each of the 2 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 Iridopteris eriensis 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 Iridopteris eriensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Iridopteris eriensis 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 itIridopteris through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arnold 1940