Scolecopteris

No picture of Scolecopteris 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 Scolecopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 316.9 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 5 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 9 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 9 occurrencesLate Triassic362–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–351 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences351–346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346–341 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences341–335 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences335–330 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences330–325 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences325–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–314 Mya — about 1 occurrence314–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–304 Mya — about 2 occurrences304–298 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences298–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293–288 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences288–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–261 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences261–256 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences256–250 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences229–224 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences224–219 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences219–213 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences213–208 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences208–203 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences316.9 Mya227.3 Mya362 Mya203 Mya

9 occurrences of Scolecopteris on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

9 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

3 formations

Carbondale — 41.28°N, 88.28°WBlackstone — 27.62°S, 152.75°EWellington — 38.68°N, 97.30°W

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The named rock units Scolecopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scolecopteris and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Scolecopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

128 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Scolecopteris, 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

5 references

Each of the 9 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

Media content0

No picture of Scolecopteris 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 Scolecopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Scolecopteris 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 itMarattiaceae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zenker 1837