Protolepidodendron
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LycophytaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
14 occurrences of Protolepidodendron 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
14 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
8 formations
- Moscow Formation · Hamilton Group7
- Upper Romney - Lower Jennings Formation1
- Moscow eq. Formation1
- Bois de Bordeaux Formation1
- Rio Chitagá Formation1
- Pimenteira Formation1
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The named rock units Protolepidodendron has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protolepidodendron and its relatives
DevonianWhere Protolepidodendron and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
76 taxa- Euphyllophytina4 sites
- Archaeosigillaria2 sites
- Archaeosigillaria vanuxemi2 sites
- Eospermatopteris2 sites
- Eurypterida2 sites
- Sigillaria2 sites
- Acanthotriletes1 site
- Amphidoxodendron dichotomum1 site
- Ancyrospora sp.1 site
- Aneurophyton1 site
- Auroraspora sp.1 site
- Avelinesia antiqua1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Burmeisteria1 site
- Calamophyton primaevum1 site
- cf. Prearamunculus sp.1 site
- Chonetoidea1 site
- Cirratriradites1 site
- Conularia1 site
- Cowralepis mclachlani1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cruziana1 site
- Ctenacanthus1 site
- Ctenoconularia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Protolepidodendron, 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
9 references- SUNY-Binghamton Paleobiology Collection6
- Cowralepis, a new genus of phyllolepid fish (Pisces, Placodermi) from the Late Middle Devonian of New South Wales, Australia1
- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 2: Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Megafossils1
- The Malvinokaffric realm in the Devonian of Brazil1
- Les grandes etapes de l'evolution paleozoique du Massif de Santander (Andes de Colombie): signification de la discordance du Devonian moyen1
- Vegetaux Mesodevoniens Recoltes Aux Confins Du Massif Du Brabant (Belgique)1
- Lycopods of the Devonian of New York State1
- Observations On Fossil Plants From the Devonian of Eastern North America IV. Plant Remains from the Catskill Delta Deposits of Northern Pennsylvania and Southern New York1
- A protolepidendron from the Devonian of Virginia1
Each of the 14 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 Protolepidodendron 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 Protolepidodendron, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protolepidodendron 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 itLycophyta through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Krejci 1880