Protopitys
No picture of Protopitys 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 Protopitys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GymnospermaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 335.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Protopitys 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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.
Protopitys and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Protopitys and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Eristophyton2 sites
- Lyginorachis2 sites
- Alcicornopteris1 site
- Amyelon1 site
- Archaeocalamites1 site
- Bilignea1 site
- Calamopitys1 site
- Calathospermum scoticum1 site
- Cladoxylon1 site
- Eristophyton beinertianum1 site
- Etapteris tubicaulis1 site
- Eurystoma1 site
- Flemingites1 site
- Geminitheca1 site
- Kalymma1 site
- Lepidodendron1 site
- Lyginorachis papilio1 site
- Protoclepsydropsis1 site
- Spermatophyta1 site
- Staphylotheca kilpatrickensis1 site
- Stenomyelon tuedianum1 site
- Stigmaria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Protopitys, 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- A reappraisal of the Dinantian floras at Oxroad Bay, East Lothian, Scotland. 1. Floristics and the development of whole-plant concepts1
- Distribution of anatomically-preserved floras in the Lower Carboniferous in Western Europe1
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 content0
No picture of Protopitys 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 Protopitys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protopitys 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGymnospermae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goeppert 1850