Paripteris gigantea

No picture of Paripteris gigantea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Paripteris gigantea 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
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Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.1 Mya to 318.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 19 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 19 of 19 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 19 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358–356 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences354–352 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences352–350 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences350–348 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences348–346 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences346–343 Mya — about 1 occurrence343–341 Mya — about 1 occurrence341–339 Mya — about 1 occurrence339–337 Mya — about 1 occurrence337–335 Mya — about 1 occurrence335–333 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences329–327 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences325–323 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences321–318 Mya — about 1 occurrence318–316 Mya — about 2 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335.1 Mya318.7 Mya360 Mya298 Mya

19 occurrences of Paripteris gigantea 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

19 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

9 formations

Ceshui — 23.90°N, 113.00°ECeshui — 23.90°N, 113.50°ECeshui — 23.00°N, 113.90°ECeshui — 22.90°N, 113.00°EMospyne — 48.23°N, 39.21°EMospyne — 48.24°N, 39.30°E"Weber" — 38.25°N, 106.30°WWeber? — 38.48°N, 105.92°WCumberland — 45.67°N, 62.70°WManning Canyon Shale — 40.28°N, 112.15°WKozlu — 41.45°N, 31.82°EFountain — 38.40°N, 105.22°WBreathitt — 37.08°N, 83.70°W

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The named rock units Paripteris gigantea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paripteris gigantea and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Paripteris gigantea and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

158 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Paripteris gigantea, 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

14 references

Each of the 19 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. 2 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

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No picture of Paripteris gigantea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Paripteris gigantea 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.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sternberg 1825)