Psilophyton

No picture of Psilophyton was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Psilophyton 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 Psilophyton, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 91 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 318.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 316.9 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 97 occurrencesDevonian — about 94 of 97 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 3 of 97 occurrencesCarboniferous422–418 Mya — about 2 occurrences418–415 Mya — about 6 occurrences415–411 Mya — about 7 occurrences411–407 Mya — about 10 occurrences407–404 Mya — about 10 occurrences404–400 Mya — about 10 occurrences400–397 Mya — about 11 occurrences397–393 Mya — about 10 occurrences393–390 Mya — about 6 occurrences390–386 Mya — about 10 occurrences386–383 Mya — about 5 occurrences383–379 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences379–375 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences375–372 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences372–368 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences368–365 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences365–361 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences361–358 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences358–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–333 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences333–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–318 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences318–315 Mya — about 2 occurrences410.62 Mya318.7 Mya422 Mya315 Mya

97 occurrences of Psilophyton 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

97 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

29 formations

Gres (et schists) de Wepion — 50.67°N, 4.13°EGres (et schists) de Wepion — 50.55°N, 4.47°EGres (et schists) de Wepion — 50.78°N, 5.45°EGres (et schists) de Wepion — 50.00°N, 5.00°EBattery Point — 48.77°N, 64.38°WBattery Point — 48.83°N, 64.30°WBattery Point — 48.82°N, 64.47°WCampbellton — 48.00°N, 66.00°WCampbellton — 48.02°N, 66.47°WCampbellton — 48.07°N, 66.38°WCampbellton — 48.03°N, 66.42°WTrout Valley — 46.00°N, 69.00°WTrout Valley — 46.10°N, 68.55°WLerbekk — 62.58°N, 11.33°EGrès de Wepion — 50.50°N, 5.67°EGrès de Wepion — 50.42°N, 4.87°EGrès de Wepion — 50.00°N, 5.00°EBurnotien — 50.58°N, 4.08°EBurnotien — 50.55°N, 5.68°ERoblin Schichten — 49.00°N, 16.08°ERoblin Schichten — 50.05°N, 14.67°ERoblin Schichten — 50.00°N, 14.83°ESextant — 51.00°N, 82.00°WGrès d'Acoz/Grès de Wepion — 50.92°N, 5.03°EKacak Schichten — 50.03°N, 14.70°EKacak Schichten — 50.00°N, 14.00°EBeartooth Butte — 44.87°N, 108.07°WBeartooth Butte — 44.95°N, 109.62°WLa Garde — 48.03°N, 66.48°WLa Garde — 47.99°N, 66.71°WSrbsko-Schichten — 50.00°N, 14.50°ELancaster — 45.24°N, 66.08°WPosongchong — 23.27°N, 104.27°EPingyiqu — 32.00°N, 105.00°EWood Bay — 62.00°N, 6.00°EWood Bay Series — 78.50°N, 18.83°EWide Bay — 79.58°N, 15.00°EHonseler Schichten — 51.27°N, 7.13°ESrbsko Schichten — 49.02°N, 15.90°EHunsrück Slate — 49.83°N, 7.37°EBellvale — 41.23°N, 74.29°W

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The named rock units Psilophyton has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Psilophyton and its relatives

Devonian

Where Psilophyton and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

343 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 73 sites for Psilophyton, 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

41 references

Each of the 97 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. 29 further references are not listed. 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 Psilophyton was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Psilophyton 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 Psilophyton, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Psilophyton 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 itPsilophytaceae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dawson 1859