Sphenophyllum thonii
No picture of Sphenophyllum thonii was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sphenophyllum thonii 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 Sphenophyllum thonii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SphenophyllumPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 1.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 300.3 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 300.9 Mya to 274.4 Mya.
7 occurrences of Sphenophyllum thonii on record. 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- Carboniferous14%
- Permian86%
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
- Goldlauterer Formation2
- Winfield Formation · Chase Group1
- Manebacher Formation1
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The named rock units Sphenophyllum thonii 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.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Callipteris conferta7 sites
- Pecopteris7 sites
- Taeniopteris7 sites
- Annularia6 sites
- Asterophyllites6 sites
- Callipteridium6 sites
- Dicksonites6 sites
- Lebachia6 sites
- Neuropteris6 sites
- Odontopteris6 sites
- Sphenopteris6 sites
- Calamariophyllum5 sites
- Callipteris5 sites
- Ernestiodendron filiciforme5 sites
- Lebachia piniformis5 sites
- Nemejcopteris feminaeformis5 sites
- Neurodontopteris auriculata5 sites
- Pecopteris (Alethopteris)5 sites
- Dicranophyllum gallicum4 sites
- Reticulopteris4 sites
- Walchia2 sites
- Asolanus1 site
- Cordaites1 site
- Dicranophyllum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Sphenophyllum thonii, 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
3 references- Stratigraphische Grundlagen des Stefan C und Rotliegenden im Thuringer Wald5
- Description of an Early Permian flora from Asturias and comments on similar occurrences in the Iberian Penisula1
- The characters of the fossil plant Gigantopteris Schenk and its occurrence in North America1
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
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No picture of Sphenophyllum thonii was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sphenophyllum thonii 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 Sphenophyllum thonii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sphenophyllum thonii 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mahr 1968