Sutcliffia insignis

Sutcliffia insignis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 4.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 316.9 Mya to 312.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 330.3 Mya to 306 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 3 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous331–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316.9 Mya312.8 Mya330.8 Mya305.5 Mya

3 occurrences of Sutcliffia insignis 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

1 formation

Carbondale — 38.18°N, 87.33°W

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The named rock units Sutcliffia insignis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sutcliffia insignis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Sutcliffia insignis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

64 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Sutcliffia insignis, 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 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Sutcliffia insignis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sutcliffia insignis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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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What may have been alongside itSutcliffia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scott 1906