Sphenophyllostachys
No picture of Sphenophyllostachys was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sphenophyllostachys 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 Sphenophyllostachys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SphenophyllalesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 314.6 Mya to 300.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
5 occurrences of Sphenophyllostachys 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
5 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Sphenophyllostachys 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.
Sphenophyllostachys and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Sphenophyllostachys and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Annularia4 sites
- Calamites3 sites
- Cordaites3 sites
- Neuropteris3 sites
- Odontopteris3 sites
- Pecopteris3 sites
- Calamites suckowii2 sites
- Mariopteris2 sites
- Pecopteris (Alethopteris)2 sites
- Sigillaria2 sites
- Sphenophyllum2 sites
- Sphenophyllum emarginatum2 sites
- Actinopteri1 site
- Alanops magnificus1 site
- Alethopteris zeilleri1 site
- Allobuthus pescei1 site
- Alloiopteris1 site
- Anebo sphrixos1 site
- Annularia (Annularia)1 site
- Anthraconaia lusitanica1 site
- Apateon pedestris1 site
- Aphlebia1 site
- Arachnida1 site
- Arthropleura1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Sphenophyllostachys, 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- The Montceau-les-Mines Lagerstätte (Late Carboniferous, France)1
- A new Upper Pennsylvanian or Lower Permian flora from southeastern Utah1
- Entorno paleoclimatico y ambiental de la flora Stephano-Autuniente del Pirineo Catalan1
- An outline stratigraphy and palaeobotanical records from the middle Carboniferous rocks of northwestern Turkey1
- Chieftain No.20 Flora (Middle Pennsylvanian) of Vigo County Indiana1
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 Sphenophyllostachys was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sphenophyllostachys 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 Sphenophyllostachys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sphenophyllostachys 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 itSphenophyllales through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Seward 1896