Lepidodendropsis

Lepidodendropsis

Katie Grosh, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 70 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 130 occurrencesDevonian — about 3 of 130 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 127 of 130 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 130 occurrences422–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–414 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–409 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences409–405 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences405–401 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences401–397 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences397–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–380 Mya — about 1 occurrence380–376 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences376–372 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences372–368 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences368–363 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences363–359 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences359–355 Mya — about 13 occurrences355–351 Mya — about 15 occurrences351–347 Mya — about 15 occurrences347–343 Mya — about 17 occurrences343–338 Mya — about 17 occurrences338–334 Mya — about 17 occurrences334–330 Mya — about 16 occurrences330–326 Mya — about 10 occurrences326–322 Mya — about 6 occurrences322–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–313 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences313–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–301 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences301–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393.47 Mya323.4 Mya422 Mya296 Mya

130 occurrences of Lepidodendropsis 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

130 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

14 formations

Horton Bluff — 44.95°N, 64.23°WHorton Bluff — 45.08°N, 64.32°WHorton Bluff — 45.03°N, 64.25°WHorton Bluff — 46.10°N, 64.22°WHorton Bluff — 45.08°N, 64.37°WHorton Bluff — 46.10°N, 64.25°WHorton Bluff — 44.95°N, 64.10°WHorton Bluff — 45.18°N, 64.17°WHorton Bluff — 45.20°N, 64.12°WHorton Bluff — 45.07°N, 64.17°WPocono — 40.50°N, 78.48°WPocono — 40.67°N, 76.24°WPocono — 40.18°N, 76.18°WPocono — 40.54°N, 76.50°WPocono — 40.56°N, 76.50°WPocono — 39.62°N, 78.10°WPocono — 41.25°N, 78.65°WPocono — 41.23°N, 77.60°WPocono — 41.33°N, 74.10°WPrice — 37.10°N, 80.68°WPrice — 37.75°N, 80.22°WPrice — 37.17°N, 80.50°WPrice — 37.23°N, 80.57°WPrice — 37.03°N, 80.77°WPrice — 37.27°N, 80.42°WAlbert — 45.87°N, 64.67°WAlbert — 45.60°N, 65.72°WAlbert — 45.80°N, 60.12°WAlbert — 45.67°N, 65.55°WZewan — 34.26°N, 75.09°EZewan — 33.78°N, 75.26°EZewan — 33.92°N, 75.24°EPrice Sandstone — 37.19°N, 80.46°WGund — 33.85°N, 75.25°EGund — 32.07°N, 78.42°ECheverie — 45.10°N, 64.17°WCheverie — 45.15°N, 64.19°WCheverie — 45.03°N, 64.25°WMemramcook — 46.07°N, 64.58°WMemramcook — 45.78°N, 65.10°WKennebecasis — 45.32°N, 66.13°WPoti — 10.00°S, 55.00°WFoel — 53.00°N, 3.00°WWutung — 31.30°N, 120.04°EHaikou — 25.62°N, 103.85°E

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The named rock units Lepidodendropsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lepidodendropsis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Lepidodendropsis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

74 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 113 sites for Lepidodendropsis, 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

12 references

Each of the 130 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 Lepidodendropsis

Credit
Katie Grosh, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lepidodendropsis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lutz 1933