Sphenopteris elegans

No picture of Sphenopteris elegans was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sphenopteris elegans 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 Sphenopteris elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 309.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 301.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 3 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–352 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences352–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences334–332 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences332–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323.4 Mya309.8 Mya360 Mya300 Mya

3 occurrences of Sphenopteris elegans 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

3 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

2 formations

Mahoning — 40.70°N, 80.65°WPottsville — 33.81°N, 87.17°W

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The named rock units Sphenopteris elegans 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.

Sphenopteris elegans and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Sphenopteris elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

72 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Sphenopteris elegans, 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

Each of the 3 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

Media content0

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

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sphenopteris elegans 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 Sphenopteris elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sphenopteris elegans 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 itSphenopteris through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brongniart 1822)