Sphenopteris specifica

No picture of Sphenopteris specifica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sphenopteris specifica, 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 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 143.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 9 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 3 of 9 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 9 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 9 occurrences203–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200–196 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences196–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–172 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences172–168 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences168–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–161 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences161–158 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–154 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences147–144 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences133–130 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.6 Mya143.1 Mya203 Mya98 Mya

9 occurrences of Sphenopteris specifica 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

9 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

3 formations

Bhuj — 23.22°N, 69.74°EBhuj — 23.37°N, 69.71°EBhuj — 23.10°N, 69.43°EBhuj — 23.18°N, 69.38°EBhuj — 23.08°N, 69.32°EBhuj — 23.28°N, 69.36°EBhuj — 23.48°N, 69.27°EKaladongar — 23.99°N, 69.78°ERajmahal — 20.52°N, 85.63°E

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The named rock units Sphenopteris specifica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

78 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Sphenopteris specifica, 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

Each of the 9 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 specifica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sphenopteris specifica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. (Feistmantel 1876)