Sinoctenis
No picture of Sinoctenis 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 Sinoctenis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CycadophytaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 36 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
20 occurrences of Sinoctenis 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
20 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
9 formations
- Anyuan Formation4
- Lamaya Formation3
- Wenbinshan Formation2
- Shazhenxi Formation2
- Bagong Formation2
- Jiuligang Formation1
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The named rock units Sinoctenis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sinoctenis and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Sinoctenis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Pterophyllum14 sites
- Cladophlebis13 sites
- Clathropteris13 sites
- Podozamites12 sites
- Dictyophyllum10 sites
- Neocalamites10 sites
- Taeniopteris10 sites
- Baiera9 sites
- Equisetites9 sites
- Nilsonia9 sites
- Ptilozamites9 sites
- Anomozamites8 sites
- Drepanozamites8 sites
- Lepidopteris8 sites
- Thaumatopteris8 sites
- Anthrophyopsis7 sites
- Goeppertella7 sites
- Todites7 sites
- Carpolithus6 sites
- Danaeopsis6 sites
- Phlebopteris6 sites
- Arberophyllum5 sites
- Ctenozamites5 sites
- Cycadocarpidium5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Sinoctenis, 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
11 references- Regional geology of Hubei Provence3
- Regional Geology of Guangdong Province2
- Regional Geology of Anhui Province2
- The Triassic System of Qinghai-Xizang Plateau2
- Regional Geology of Fujian Province2
- Regional Geology of Jiangxi Province2
- Late Triassic plants from eastern Xizang2
- The Stratigraphic Tables of Sichuan2
- Regional Geology of Liaoning Province1
- Regional Geology of Hunan Province1
- The Stratigraphic Tables of Yunnan1
Each of the 20 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
Media content0
No picture of Sinoctenis 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 Sinoctenis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sinoctenis 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 itCycadophyta through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sze 1931