Paulophyton sommeri
No picture of Paulophyton sommeri was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Paulophyton sommeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaulophytonPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 330.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Paulophyton sommeri 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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 Paulophyton sommeri 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.
Paulophyton sommeri and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Paulophyton sommeri and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Lepidodendropsis2 sites
- Sphenopteridium2 sites
- Aneimites1 site
- Archaeocalamites1 site
- Archaeocalamites radiatus1 site
- Diplothmema bodenbenderi1 site
- Diplothmema gothanica1 site
- Fryopsis1 site
- Kegelidium lamegoi1 site
- Nothorhacopteris cf. kellaybelenensis1 site
- Nothorhacopteris kellaybelenensis1 site
- Porostrobus1 site
- Pseudobumbudendron sp.1 site
- Tomiodendron1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Paulophyton sommeri, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Paulophyton sommeri was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Paulophyton sommeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paulophyton sommeri was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itPaulophyton through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dolianiti 1954