Marchantites

A picture published with the record for Marchantites. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
MarchantiaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 171 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 16 of 26 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 26 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 26 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 26 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 26 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 26 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 26 occurrencesEocene241–234 Mya — about 3 occurrences234–227 Mya — about 6 occurrences227–220 Mya — about 2 occurrences220–213 Mya — about 2 occurrences213–206 Mya — about 2 occurrences206–200 Mya — about 1 occurrence200–193 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences193–186 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences186–179 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences179–172 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences172–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences165–158 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences158–151 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences151–144 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences144–137 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences137–130 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences130–124 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences124–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences110–103 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences227.3 Mya56 Mya241 Mya34 Mya

26 occurrences of Marchantites on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

26 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

10 formations

Molteno — 29.50°S, 29.50°EMolteno — 28.57°S, 29.05°EMolteno — 31.47°S, 26.43°EMolteno — 31.47°S, 26.83°EMolteno — 31.57°S, 26.22°EMolteno — 31.50°S, 27.00°EMolteno — 31.05°S, 26.80°EMolteno — 31.57°S, 26.27°EMolteno — 31.50°S, 27.93°EMolteno — 31.53°S, 26.23°EMolteno — 30.68°S, 26.95°EMolteno — 31.07°S, 26.55°EMolteno — 31.52°S, 27.95°EMolteno — 29.50°S, 27.50°EShitouhezhi — 47.40°N, 130.20°ELower Coal Suite — 42.80°N, 70.20°ETyumen' Suite — 58.30°N, 83.00°EYagman coal Suite — 39.80°N, 54.30°ECommotion — 54.42°N, 120.37°WKrivorechenskaya — 64.48°N, 168.92°EKirkwood — 33.50°S, 25.50°EBuxin — 23.18°N, 112.88°E

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The named rock units Marchantites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Marchantites and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Marchantites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Marchantites, 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

10 references

Each of the 26 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 Marchantites

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMarchantiaceae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1849