Saportaea dichotoma
No picture of Saportaea dichotoma 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 Saportaea dichotoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SaportaeaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 9.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 227.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Saportaea dichotoma 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
1 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Saportaea dichotoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Saportaea dichotoma and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Saportaea dichotoma and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Asterotheca fuchsii1 site
- Dicroidium crassinervis1 site
- Dicroidium elongatum1 site
- Dictyophyllum fuenzalidai1 site
- Dictyophyllum tenuifolium1 site
- Gleichenites1 site
- Gontriglossa reinerae1 site
- Heidiphyllum elongatum1 site
- Kurtziana cacheutensis1 site
- Linguifolium steinmannii1 site
- Pterophyllum santajuanensis1 site
- Sphenobaiera africana1 site
- Telemachus elongatus1 site
- Thaumatopteris rothii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Saportaea dichotoma, 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 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Saportaea dichotoma 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 Saportaea dichotoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Saportaea dichotoma 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 itSaportaea through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frenguelli 1942