Penosphyllum cordatum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PenosphyllumPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
15 occurrences of Penosphyllum cordatum on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
15 occurrencesThese 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
7 formations
- Fort Union Formation7
- Denver Formation2
- Fort Union? Formation2
- Golden Valley Formation1
- Willwood Formation1
- Raton Formation1
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The named rock units Penosphyllum cordatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Penosphyllum cordatum and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Penosphyllum cordatum and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
107 taxa- Cercidiphyllum6 sites
- Ampelopsis acerifolia5 sites
- Averrhoites affinis5 sites
- Beringiaphyllum cupanioides5 sites
- Eucommia4 sites
- Nyssa4 sites
- Platanus raynoldsi4 sites
- Allantodiopsis erosa3 sites
- Corylus insignis3 sites
- Equisetum3 sites
- Ficus (Ficus)3 sites
- Ficus artocarpoides3 sites
- Ficus planicostata3 sites
- Paranymphaea crassifolia3 sites
- Anemia elongata2 sites
- Celtis aspera2 sites
- Cercidiphyllum genetrix2 sites
- Chaetoptelea microphylla2 sites
- Cissus marginata2 sites
- Davidia antiqua2 sites
- Dicotyledoneae2 sites
- Fraxinus eocenica2 sites
- Glyptostrobus2 sites
- Glyptostrobus europaeus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Penosphyllum cordatum, 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
4 references- Paleocene flora of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains11
- Plant and mammal diversity in the Paleocene to Early Eocene of the Bighorn Basin2
- Decoupled plant and insect diversity after the end-Cretaceous extinction1
- Stratigraphy and paleobotany of the Golden Valley Formation (Early Tertiary) of western North Dakota1
Each of the 15 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 Penosphyllum cordatum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Penosphyllum cordatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Penosphyllum cordatum 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.
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What may have been alongside itPenosphyllum through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ward 1885)