Oligocarpia

Oligocarpia

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 96 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 28 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 20 of 28 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 28 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 4 of 28 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 28 occurrences362–357 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences357–351 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences351–346 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences346–340 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences340–335 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences335–329 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences329–324 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences324–318 Mya — about 1 occurrence318–313 Mya — about 2 occurrences313–307 Mya — about 3 occurrences307–302 Mya — about 4 occurrences302–297 Mya — about 6 occurrences275–269 Mya — about 1 occurrence269–264 Mya — about 2 occurrences264–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence242–236 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences236–231 Mya — about 2 occurrences231–226 Mya — about 1 occurrence226–220 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences220–215 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences215–209 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences209–204 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323.4 Mya227.3 Mya362 Mya198 Mya

28 occurrences of Oligocarpia 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

28 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

5 formations

Minto — 46.08°N, 66.08°WCarbondale — 41.00°N, 88.00°WBrazil — 39.13°N, 87.02°WIntiskaya Suite — 59.70°N, 54.90°EEr-Yaginskaya Suite — 69.60°N, 63.60°E

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The named rock units Oligocarpia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oligocarpia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Oligocarpia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

228 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Oligocarpia, 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

16 references

Each of the 28 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Oligocarpia

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Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Oligocarpia was found in Sketchfab.

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.

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What may have been alongside itGleicheniaceae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goeppert 1841