Pterophyllum compressum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PterophyllumPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 31 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 205.7 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Pterophyllum compressum on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pterophyllum compressum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pterophyllum compressum and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Pterophyllum compressum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Anomozamites minor3 sites
- Cladophlebis3 sites
- Dictyophyllum3 sites
- Doratophyllum astartensis3 sites
- Equisetites3 sites
- Nilsonia3 sites
- Antevsia zeilleri2 sites
- Bennetticarpus2 sites
- Camptopteris2 sites
- Clathropteris meniscioides2 sites
- Danaeopsis fecunda2 sites
- Desmiophyllum2 sites
- Lepidopteris2 sites
- Nilssoniopteris2 sites
- Peltaspermum rotula2 sites
- Phlebopteris2 sites
- Phlebopteris polypodioides2 sites
- Plantae2 sites
- Ptilozamites nilssonii2 sites
- Rhaphidopteris2 sites
- Sagenopteris2 sites
- Thinnfeldia2 sites
- Todites2 sites
- Wielandiella angustifolia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pterophyllum compressum, 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
2 references- Studies in the Rhaeto-Liassic Floras of Sweden I (Pteridophyta, Pteridospermae, and Cycadophyta from the mining district of NW Scania)2
- Triassic Floras of Eurasia1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pterophyllum compressum 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 Pterophyllum compressum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pterophyllum compressum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPterophyllum through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lundblad 1950