Sciadophyton
No picture of Sciadophyton was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sciadophyton 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 Sciadophyton, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TracheophytaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 38 million years on record.
The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
5 occurrences of Sciadophyton 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
5 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Sciadophyton 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.
Sciadophyton and its relatives
DevonianWhere Sciadophyton and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Taeniocrada4 sites
- Sporogonites exuberans3 sites
- Drepanophycus spinaeformis2 sites
- Psilophyton2 sites
- <Articulale>1 site
- Archaeopteris1 site
- Barinophyton1 site
- Callicylix (Cyclostigma)1 site
- Dawsonites1 site
- Dawsonites arcuatus1 site
- Euphyllophytina1 site
- Hostinella1 site
- Lingula1 site
- Lycopodia indet.1 site
- Protobarinophyton1 site
- Psilophyton princeps1 site
- Yarravia1 site
- Zosterophyllum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Sciadophyton, 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
4 references- Vegetaux Eodevoniens de la Belgique2
- SUNY-Binghamton Paleobiology Collection1
- Contribution a l'etude des flores devoniennes du Nord de la France. II. - Flore eodevonienne de Rebreuve. [Contribution to the Study of the Devonian Flora of Northern France. Part II - Eodevonian Flora of Rebreuve]1
- The Lower Devonian flora of the Senni Beds of Monmouthsire and Breconshire1
Each of the 5 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. 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
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No picture of Sciadophyton was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sciadophyton 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 Sciadophyton, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sciadophyton 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.
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What may have been alongside itTracheophyta through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kraeusel and Weyland 1930