Salopella australis

Salopella is a form genus for small fossil plants of Late Silurian to Early Devonian age. The diagnostic characters are naked axes branching isotomously, terminating in fusiform sporangia. The sporangia are unbranched, but in at least the type species the axes seem to branch just under the sporangia. It differs from the similar form genus Tortilicaulis in that the sporangia do not have spirally arranged cells, and from other similar form genera such as Cooksonia, Uskiella and Tarrantia in the shape of the sporangia.

A picture published with the record for Salopella australis. What it shows has not been checked.

Smith609 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

Time the record covers

At least 9.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesDevonian428–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences422.7 Mya413.02 Mya427.6 Mya381.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Salopella australis on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

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

Yea — 37.22°S, 145.43°EFrenchman Spur — 35.20°S, 143.43°E

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

Salopella australis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Salopella australis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Salopella australis, 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

1 reference

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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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Picture of Salopella australis

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No 3D scan of Salopella australis 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.

The description on this site

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