Senftenbergia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SchizaeaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
7 occurrences of Senftenbergia 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
7 occurrences- Carboniferous65%
- Permian35%
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 Senftenbergia 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.
Senftenbergia and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Senftenbergia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
83 taxa- Pecopteris4 sites
- Mariopteris3 sites
- Neuropteris3 sites
- Sigillaria3 sites
- Alloiopteris2 sites
- Annularia2 sites
- Cordaites2 sites
- Crossotheca2 sites
- Eusphenopteris2 sites
- Linopteris2 sites
- Odontopteris2 sites
- Pecopteris (Alethopteris)2 sites
- Ptychocarpus2 sites
- Sphenopteris2 sites
- Accintisporites exundatus1 site
- Adelophthalmus mazonensis1 site
- Alisporites maximus1 site
- Alisporites parvus1 site
- Aphlebia1 site
- Apiculatisporis1 site
- Asolanus1 site
- Asterophyllites1 site
- Asterotheca1 site
- Asterotheca miltoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Senftenbergia, 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- Preliminary Report on Permineralized Senftenbergia from the Chester Series of Illinois2
- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants2
- The Pennsylvanian-Permian vegetational transition: a terrestrial analogue to the onshore-offshore hypothesis1
- High diversity and stratigraphic age of the Mazon Creek flora (In M. Nitcki (ed.))1
- Chieftain No.20 Flora (Middle Pennsylvanian) of Vigo County Indiana1
Each of the 7 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 content1
Picture of Senftenbergia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Senftenbergia 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 itSchizaeaceae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Corda 1845