Pertica quadrifaria

Pertica quadrifaria

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 399.5 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesDevonian400–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400 Mya387.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Pertica quadrifaria on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

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

Trout Valley — 46.10°N, 68.55°W

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

Pertica quadrifaria and its relatives

Devonian

Where Pertica quadrifaria and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Pertica quadrifaria, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 references

Each 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

Media content1

Picture of Pertica quadrifaria

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Pertica quadrifaria 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 itPertica through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kasper and Andrews 1972