Potoniea

No picture of Potoniea was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Potoniea itself, so it was not used. 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 Potoniea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.1 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrences349–345 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences339–335 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences335–332 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–253 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences335.1 Mya254.14 Mya349 Mya250 Mya

3 occurrences of Potoniea 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

3 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

2 formations

Ceshui — 23.90°N, 113.00°ECeshui — 23.00°N, 113.90°EShentang — 22.20°N, 112.30°E

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

Potoniea and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Potoniea and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Potoniea, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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 Potoniea was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Potoniea itself, so it was not used.

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 Potoniea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Potoniea 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 itMedullosaceae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zeiller 1899