Sphenobaiera

Sphenobaiera

via iDigBio · CC BY-NC-SA · via iDigBio. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 234 million years on record.

The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 516 occurrencesPermian — about 29 of 516 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 10 of 516 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 14 of 516 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 96 of 516 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 145 of 516 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 153 of 516 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 47 of 516 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 18 of 516 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 516 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 516 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 516 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 516 occurrences321–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–301 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences301–292 Mya — about 4 occurrences292–282 Mya — about 5 occurrences282–272 Mya — about 3 occurrences272–262 Mya — about 3 occurrences262–253 Mya — about 13 occurrences253–243 Mya — about 18 occurrences243–233 Mya — about 22 occurrences233–223 Mya — about 29 occurrences223–214 Mya — about 19 occurrences214–204 Mya — about 23 occurrences204–194 Mya — about 62 occurrences194–184 Mya — about 47 occurrences184–175 Mya — about 47 occurrences175–165 Mya — about 131 occurrences165–155 Mya — about 33 occurrences155–145 Mya — about 27 occurrences145–136 Mya — about 11 occurrences136–126 Mya — about 2 occurrences126–116 Mya — about 5 occurrences116–106 Mya — about 4 occurrences106–97 Mya — about 4 occurrences97–87 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences58–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences290.1 Mya56 Mya321 Mya28 Mya

516 occurrences of Sphenobaiera on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

516 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

215 formations

Molteno — 29.50°S, 29.50°EMolteno — 30.50°S, 29.00°EMolteno — 28.57°S, 29.05°EMolteno — 31.10°S, 26.50°EMolteno — 31.50°S, 28.00°EMolteno — 30.80°S, 26.88°EMolteno — 30.53°S, 26.90°EMolteno — 30.90°S, 26.72°EMolteno — 31.50°S, 27.92°EMolteno — 30.50°S, 26.82°EMolteno — 31.47°S, 26.83°EMolteno — 31.57°S, 26.22°EMolteno — 31.48°S, 26.90°EMolteno — 31.17°S, 28.43°EMolteno — 31.40°S, 26.38°EMolteno — 30.68°S, 28.52°EMolteno — 31.57°S, 26.27°EMolteno — 30.00°S, 29.00°EMolteno — 31.53°S, 26.23°EMolteno — 30.68°S, 26.95°EMolteno — 31.62°S, 27.52°EMolteno — 31.50°S, 27.00°ESaltwick — 54.50°N, 0.75°WSaltwick — 54.40°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.33°N, 0.50°WSaltwick — 54.37°N, 1.25°WCape Stewart — 70.50°N, 22.60°WErbek Suite — 51.60°N, 94.20°EErbek Suite — 51.50°N, 95.50°EBasal and coal-bearing Suite — 42.50°N, 78.70°EBasal and coal-bearing Suite — 42.60°N, 79.00°EOzhogino Suite — 66.40°N, 149.50°EOzhogino Suite — 66.10°N, 148.90°EOzhogino Suite — 65.60°N, 149.40°EKamala Suite — 55.80°N, 94.90°EKamala Suite — 55.70°N, 94.70°ETyumen' Suite — 58.30°N, 83.00°ETyumen' Suite — 55.20°N, 76.00°EBurgersdorp — 30.70°S, 26.70°EBurgersdorp — 31.67°S, 27.33°ELower Saltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSteierdorf — 45.08°N, 21.85°EDubovka Suite — 49.80°N, 73.10°EDzhil' Suite — 41.80°N, 74.00°EDzhil' Suite — 42.70°N, 77.20°EBerge Suite — 63.80°N, 127.40°EBerge Suite — 63.50°N, 118.80°EOr' Suite — 51.20°N, 58.60°EAngren Suite — 41.00°N, 70.20°EAngren Suite — 40.90°N, 71.00°ECorwin — 69.33°N, 162.56°WCorwin — 69.50°N, 162.77°WMolteno — 29.50°S, 27.50°EMolteno — 30.00°S, 27.50°EZechstein Limestone — 51.55°N, 6.60°EPaso Flores — 40.30°S, 70.70°WPaso Flores — 40.50°S, 70.50°WPotrerillos — 33.00°S, 69.10°WPotrerillos — 33.08°S, 69.11°WChengzhi — 45.90°N, 133.00°ENegoya — 37.00°N, 137.80°ELower Kushmur Suite — 52.50°N, 64.70°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Sphenobaiera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 191 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 100 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphenobaiera and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Sphenobaiera and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

600 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 372 sites for Sphenobaiera, and this reads 240 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

170 references

Each of the 516 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. 158 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Sphenobaiera

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Ilia
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itGinkgoales through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Florin 1936