Mariopteris nervosa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MariopterisPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 312.8 Mya to 309.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
13 occurrences of Mariopteris nervosa 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
13 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
5 formations
- Breathitt Formation4
- Charleston Sandstone Formation1
- Shelburn Formation1
- Boggy Formation · Krebs Group1
- Heilgenwalder Schichten Formation1
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The named rock units Mariopteris nervosa 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.
Mariopteris nervosa and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Mariopteris nervosa and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- Annularia10 sites
- Neuropteris10 sites
- Asterophyllites9 sites
- Pecopteris9 sites
- Pecopteris (Alethopteris)9 sites
- Sphenopteris9 sites
- Calamites8 sites
- Sphenophyllum8 sites
- Calamites undulatus6 sites
- Imparipteris heterophylla6 sites
- Lepidostrobophyllum5 sites
- Sphenophyllum emarginatum5 sites
- Lepidophylloides4 sites
- Lepidostrobus ornatus4 sites
- Linopteris4 sites
- Sphenophyta4 sites
- Stigmaria ficoides4 sites
- Calamites suckowii3 sites
- Calamostachys3 sites
- Crossotheca3 sites
- Eremopteris3 sites
- Hemitelites hemitelioides3 sites
- Lepidodendron aculeatum3 sites
- Sigillaria3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Mariopteris nervosa, 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- Pennsylvanian plants of eastern Kentucky: A flora from the Breathitt Formation near Grannies Branch and Rocky Branch of Goose Creek, Clay County, Kentucky4
- Quantitative Analysis and Paleoecology of the Secor Coal and Roof-Shale Floras (Middle Pennsylvanian, Oklahoma)1
- A middle Westphalian flora from the Alvarelhos strip near the Serra de Bougado, Santo Tirso, North Portugal1
- Compression floras of the Upper Mansfield/Lower Brazil and Upper Staunton Formation in Parke and Clay Counties, Indiana1
- Chieftain No.20 Flora (Middle Pennsylvanian) of Vigo County Indiana1
- The fossil flora of Bous-Volkingen (Upper Westphalian, Saar Basin)1
- Darrah, 19691
- A Lower Kittanning Flora from Northern West Virginia1
- An Upper Westphalian flora from the mine Inés, near the pass of Pajares, on the Leonese-Asturian boundary (N.W. Spain)1
- Fossil Flora of the Michigan Coal Basin1
Each of the 13 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 Mariopteris nervosa
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Mariopteris nervosa 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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What may have been alongside itMariopteris through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1879