Sphenopteris warragulensis
No picture of Sphenopteris warragulensis was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sphenopteris warragulensis itself, so it was not used. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Sphenopteris warragulensis 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 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Sphenopteris warragulensis 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
2 occurrencesThese 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
- Winton Formation · Rolling Downs Group1
- Triton Point Formation · Fossil Bluff Group1
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The named rock units Sphenopteris warragulensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sphenopteris warragulensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Sphenopteris warragulensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
4 taxa- Austrosequoia wintonensis1 site
- Cladophlebis1 site
- Fagales1 site
- Microphyllopteris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Sphenopteris warragulensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Ferns from the Cretaceous of Alexander Island, Antarctica: Implications for Cretaceous phytogeography of the Southern Hemisphere1
- A Cenomanian Flora from the Winton Formation, Eromanga Basin, Queensland, Australia1
Each of the 2 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 Sphenopteris warragulensis was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sphenopteris warragulensis itself, so it was not used.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Sphenopteris warragulensis 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 warragulensis 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. McCoy 1892