Ovopteris

No picture of Ovopteris was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Ovopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SphenopteridaceaePBDB
Diet
C3 autotrophPBDB, for Sphenopteridaceae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Sphenopteridaceae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Sphenopteridaceae
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Sphenopteridaceae

Time the record covers

At most 76 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 283.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPermian360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–355 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences353–350 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences350–347 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences347–345 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences337–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–332 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences329–326 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences316–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–308 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences298–295 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences295–292 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences290–287 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences287–284 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360 Mya282 Mya

3 occurrences of Ovopteris 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

3 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

3 formations

Tradewater — 39.45°N, 89.33°WAssise de Lebach — 48.40°N, 7.30°EGres de Bucaco — 40.40°N, 8.40°W

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The named rock units Ovopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ovopteris and its relatives

Permian

Where Ovopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

31 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ovopteris, 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

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 content0

No picture of Ovopteris was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Ovopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ovopteris 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itSphenopteridaceae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Potonie 1893