Spiropteris

No picture of Spiropteris was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Spiropteris 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
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Time the record covers

At least 237 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 365.2 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 24 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 4 of 24 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 24 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 24 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 24 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 11 of 24 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 24 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 24 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous370–362 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences362–353 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences353–344 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences344–335 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences335–327 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences327–318 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences318–309 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences309–300 Mya — about 2 occurrences300–292 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences248–239 Mya — about 1 occurrence239–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences230–222 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences222–213 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences213–204 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences204–196 Mya — about 5 occurrences196–187 Mya — about 3 occurrences187–178 Mya — about 3 occurrences178–169 Mya — about 3 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences161–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–117 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences117–108 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences358.86 Mya121.4 Mya370 Mya108 Mya

24 occurrences of Spiropteris on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

24 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

15 formations

Steierdorf — 45.08°N, 21.87°EMahoning — 40.70°N, 80.65°WMakarovo Suite — 57.50°N, 88.50°EMakarovo Suite — 56.10°N, 89.10°EDrywood — 38.00°N, 93.00°WBrazil — 39.13°N, 87.02°WMine — 56.08°N, 12.90°ERoca Blanca — 48.00°S, 68.60°WDatong — 40.10°N, 113.10°ELinjia — 41.30°N, 123.70°EAktash Suite — 42.70°N, 77.20°EUpper Tashkutan Suite — 38.50°N, 67.90°EMiddle and Upper Kukhiraat Suite — 39.20°N, 68.50°EKurnub — 29.10°N, 33.60°EEvieux — 50.72°N, 5.98°EPunta del Barco — 48.66°S, 69.12°W

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The named rock units Spiropteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spiropteris and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Spiropteris and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

218 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Spiropteris, 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

18 references

Each of the 24 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. 6 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Spiropteris was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Spiropteris 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 Spiropteris 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schimper 1869