Odontopteris
Searched as Odontopteris minor. The Paleobiology Database treats Odontopteris as the accepted name.
No picture of Odontopteris was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Odontopteris itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Odontopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PeltaspermaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 1.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 300.3 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307.4 Mya to 283.3 Mya.
3 occurrences of Odontopteris 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
3 occurrences- Carboniferous67%
- Permian33%
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
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The named rock units Odontopteris 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.
Odontopteris and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Odontopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
546 taxa- Pecopteris98 sites
- Annularia80 sites
- Neuropteris62 sites
- Taeniopteris62 sites
- Sphenophyllum58 sites
- Sphenopteris54 sites
- Cordaites53 sites
- Callipteris52 sites
- Calamites44 sites
- Walchia43 sites
- Asterophyllites38 sites
- Pecopteris (Alethopteris)36 sites
- Callipteridium33 sites
- Callipteris conferta33 sites
- Lebachia33 sites
- Ernestiodendron filiciforme30 sites
- Lebachia piniformis30 sites
- Samaropsis22 sites
- Lepidodendron20 sites
- Dicksonites19 sites
- Sigillaria18 sites
- Gomphostrobus17 sites
- Linopteris16 sites
- Gigantopteris15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 128 sites for Odontopteris, 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- The Montceau-les-Mines Lagerstätte (Late Carboniferous, France)1
- Entorno paleoclimatico y ambiental de la flora Stephano-Autuniente del Pirineo Catalan1
- Contribution a l'etude des flores Autuno-Stephaniennes1
Each of the 3 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
No picture of Odontopteris was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Odontopteris itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Odontopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPeltaspermaceae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1825