Phyllotheca australis

Phyllotheca australis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 251.1 Mya.

Permian — about 36 of 37 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 37 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 5 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 5 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 5 occurrences256–254 Mya — about 5 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 7 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 6 occurrences252–250 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences274.4 Mya254.14 Mya290.9 Mya250.3 Mya

37 occurrences of Phyllotheca australis 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

37 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

10 formations

Estcourt — 28.67°S, 29.17°EEstcourt — 28.67°S, 29.33°EEstcourt — 28.83°S, 29.67°EEstcourt — 29.00°S, 29.83°EEstcourt — 29.17°S, 30.00°EEstcourt — 29.17°S, 30.17°EEstcourt — 29.50°S, 30.17°EEstcourt — 29.50°S, 30.00°EEstcourt — 29.80°S, 29.79°EEstcourt — 28.50°S, 32.00°EBlack Alley Shale — 24.00°S, 148.00°ERangal Coal Measures — 23.00°S, 148.00°ERangal Coal Measures — 22.00°S, 148.00°EBurngrove — 23.00°S, 148.00°EBurngrove equivalents — 23.00°S, 149.00°EBalfour — 31.93°S, 24.88°EBandanna — 25.00°S, 148.00°EMacMillan — 23.00°S, 148.00°EFair Hill — 23.00°S, 148.00°EBurngrove equivalent — 23.00°S, 149.00°E

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The named rock units Phyllotheca australis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phyllotheca australis and its relatives

Permian

Where Phyllotheca australis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

80 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Phyllotheca australis, 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

Each of the 37 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

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Picture of Phyllotheca australis

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No 3D scan of Phyllotheca australis 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 itPhyllotheca through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1828