Megistophyllum
No picture of Megistophyllum was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Megistophyllum firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlantaePBDB
Time the record covers
At most 47 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Megistophyllum 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
2 occurrences- Permian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Megistophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Megistophyllum and its relatives
PermianWhere Megistophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Annularia2 sites
- Asterotheca2 sites
- Gangamopteris2 sites
- Pecopteris2 sites
- Sphenophyllum2 sites
- Asterotheca singeri1 site
- Chiropteris1 site
- Cordaites hislopi1 site
- Dichotomopteris1 site
- Dizeugotheca1 site
- Eremopteris1 site
- Gangamopteris angustifolia1 site
- Glossopteris1 site
- Glossopteris browniana1 site
- Glossopteris conspicua1 site
- Glossopteris damudica1 site
- Glossopteris decipiens1 site
- Glossopteris indica1 site
- Glossopteris obovata1 site
- Glossopteris retifera1 site
- Glossopteris stipanicicii1 site
- Glossopteris stricta1 site
- Lepidodendron1 site
- Palaeovittaria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Megistophyllum, 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
2 references- Zonacion del Permico continental de Argentina sobre la base de sus plantas fosiles1
- Sobre la flora de Glossopteris del Bajo de la Leona, Santa Cruz, Patagonia1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Megistophyllum was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Megistophyllum firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Megistophyllum 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 itPlantae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Archangelsky 1957