Sphenopsida

No picture of Sphenopsida was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Sphenopsida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 347 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 66 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 984 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 984 occurrencesDevonian — about 43 of 984 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 287 of 984 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 582 of 984 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 38 of 984 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 984 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 984 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 11 of 984 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 984 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 984 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 984 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 984 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 984 occurrences451–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–424 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences424–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–398 Mya — about 2 occurrences398–385 Mya — about 22 occurrences385–372 Mya — about 18 occurrences372–359 Mya — about 2 occurrences359–346 Mya — about 4 occurrences346–333 Mya — about 16 occurrences333–320 Mya — about 18 occurrences320–307 Mya — about 127 occurrences307–294 Mya — about 137 occurrences294–281 Mya — about 124 occurrences281–268 Mya — about 185 occurrences268–255 Mya — about 217 occurrences255–241 Mya — about 80 occurrences241–228 Mya — about 4 occurrences228–215 Mya — about 2 occurrences215–202 Mya — about 2 occurrences202–189 Mya — about 4 occurrences189–176 Mya — about 6 occurrences176–163 Mya — about 5 occurrences124–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–98 Mya — about 4 occurrences98–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–58 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences419.62 Mya72.2 Mya451 Mya58 Mya

984 occurrences of Sphenopsida on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

984 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

221 formations

Carbondale — 40.00°N, 88.00°WCarbondale — 39.00°N, 87.00°WLost Branch — 37.19°N, 95.42°WLost Branch — 37.83°N, 94.98°WKoshelevskaya Suite — 56.50°N, 57.50°EKoshelevskaya Suite — 56.40°N, 57.50°EKoshelevskaya Suite — 56.70°N, 57.30°EKoshelevskaya Suite — 57.40°N, 57.70°EKoshelevskaya Suite — 57.40°N, 57.60°EKoshelevskaya Suite — 57.50°N, 58.30°EKoshelevskaya Suite — 57.00°N, 58.20°ESpoon — 40.00°N, 88.00°WShanxi — 37.80°N, 112.20°EShanxi — 40.00°N, 116.20°EShanxi — 38.00°N, 114.00°EShanxi — 41.80°N, 126.50°EShanxi — 35.20°N, 109.90°EShanxi — 34.20°N, 113.50°EShanxi — 38.80°N, 105.60°EShanxi — 41.20°N, 123.80°EShanxi — 38.80°N, 99.60°EShanxi — 38.50°N, 102.20°EShanxi — 38.20°N, 106.40°EShanxi — 39.40°N, 111.00°EShanxi — 35.10°N, 117.20°ESabanakovian — 56.50°N, 57.70°ESabanakovian — 56.50°N, 57.50°ESabanakovian — 56.30°N, 57.80°ESabanakovian — 56.00°N, 58.00°ESabanakovian — 56.20°N, 58.00°ESeminole — 37.26°N, 93.86°WSeminole — 37.15°N, 95.47°WSeminole — 37.18°N, 95.42°WSeminole — 36.08°N, 95.05°WSeminole — 36.78°N, 95.69°WUrminskian — 57.50°N, 58.50°EUrminskian — 57.40°N, 58.40°EUrminskian — 57.70°N, 58.50°EWild Cow — 35.00°N, 106.67°WWild Cow — 34.95°N, 106.30°WLongtan — 30.80°N, 120.20°ELongtan — 30.80°N, 118.70°ELongtan — 30.80°N, 119.40°ELongtan — 30.20°N, 114.90°ELongtan — 27.00°N, 113.30°ELongtan — 24.70°N, 110.60°ELongtan — 31.30°N, 120.60°ELongtan — 34.00°N, 119.80°ERio do Rasto — 28.30°S, 49.50°WRio do Rasto — 27.00°S, 50.00°WRio do Rasto — 25.50°S, 51.00°WDong — 25.10°N, 113.60°EDong — 24.80°N, 113.60°EGabdrashitovian Suite — 55.10°N, 57.60°EGabdrashitovian Suite — 56.20°N, 57.80°EGabdrashitovian Suite — 55.50°N, 58.00°EGabdrashitovian Suite — 55.70°N, 58.10°EKyzyl-Kiya Suite — 47.80°N, 77.50°EKyzyl-Kiya Suite — 46.70°N, 79.00°EKyzyl-Kiya Suite — 47.40°N, 79.70°EShelburn — 37.89°N, 87.71°WShelburn — 39.04°N, 87.28°WShelburn — 37.91°N, 88.80°WShelburn — 39.50°N, 90.04°WGneudna — 26.00°S, 115.00°EGneudna — 23.00°S, 116.00°ECape Stewart — 70.50°N, 22.60°WUnnamed — 38.64°N, 94.40°WUnnamed — 40.23°N, 93.13°WUnnamed — 39.00°N, 93.97°WNoyansomonskaya Suite — 43.40°N, 102.20°EConemaugh — 39.71°N, 80.83°WConemaugh — 39.33°N, 82.13°WConemaugh — 40.69°N, 80.64°WConemaugh — 40.34°N, 80.67°WHepler Unit — 37.83°N, 94.98°WLekskaya Suite — 57.70°N, 57.80°ELekskaya Suite — 58.30°N, 57.90°ELekskaya Suite — 58.30°N, 58.00°ETradewater — 37.56°N, 88.51°WTradewater — 37.56°N, 88.79°WTradewater — 37.50°N, 88.01°WPatoka — 39.45°N, 89.95°WPatoka — 39.49°N, 90.02°WPatoka — 39.48°N, 90.10°W

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The named rock units Sphenopsida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 197 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 328 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphenopsida and its relatives

Permian

Where Sphenopsida and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

621 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 609 sites for Sphenopsida, 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

153 references

Each of the 984 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. 141 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 content0

No picture of Sphenopsida was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Sphenopsida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sphenopsida 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 itSphenophyta through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.