Sphenopteris brulensis
No picture of Sphenopteris brulensis was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sphenopteris brulensis itself, so it was not used. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Sphenopteris brulensis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 119.57 Mya and 106.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Sphenopteris brulensis on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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- Early Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Sphenopteris brulensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sphenopteris brulensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Sphenopteris brulensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Coniopteris simplex3 sites
- Klukia canadensis3 sites
- Sagenopteris elliptica3 sites
- Sagenopteris mclearni3 sites
- Athrotaxites2 sites
- Cladophlebis2 sites
- Cladophlebis constricta2 sites
- Coniopteris hymenophylloides2 sites
- Pseudocycas douglasii2 sites
- Sagenopteris williamsii2 sites
- Sphenopteris latiloba2 sites
- Sphenopteris mclearni2 sites
- Acrostichopteris longipennis1 site
- Cladophlebis oerstedi1 site
- Cladophlebis virginiensis1 site
- Coniopteris1 site
- Dictyothykalos sp.1 site
- Diettertia montanensis1 site
- Elatocladus1 site
- Equisetum montanense1 site
- Ginkgo pluripartita1 site
- Marchantiolites blairmorensis1 site
- Metzgeriites montanensis1 site
- Nageiopsis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Sphenopteris brulensis, 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
2 references- Flora of the Early Cretaceous Kootenai Formation in Montana, Bryophytes and Tracheophytes Excluding Conifers3
- Stratigraphy and Petrology of the Lower Cretaceous Blairmore and Mannville Groups, Alberta Foothills and Plains2
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Sphenopteris brulensis was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sphenopteris brulensis itself, so it was not used.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Sphenopteris brulensis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Sphenopteris brulensis 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 itFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bell 1956