Polymorphopteris

No picture of Polymorphopteris was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Polymorphopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 19 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 301.4 Mya and 283.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 3 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPermian302–301 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 2 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences292–292 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences289–289 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences287–287 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences285–285 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences301.9 Mya282.8 Mya

4 occurrences of Polymorphopteris 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

4 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.

Polymorphopteris and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Polymorphopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

28 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Polymorphopteris, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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 Polymorphopteris was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Polymorphopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Polymorphopteris 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 itFilicinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wagner 1958