Megaphyton

Megaphyton

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 2 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 5 occurrencesPermian361–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–337 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences337–333 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences333–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–302 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences302–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–296 Mya — about 1 occurrence296–292 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences265–261 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences261–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences298.9 Mya264.28 Mya361 Mya258 Mya

5 occurrences of Megaphyton on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

5 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

2 formations

Odernheim-Lauterecken — 49.70°N, 7.80°EKyundeiskaya Suite — 63.20°N, 118.80°E

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The named rock units Megaphyton has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megaphyton and its relatives

Permian

Where Megaphyton and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

83 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Megaphyton, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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 Megaphyton

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Megaphyton 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 itMarattiaceae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Artis 1825