Tracheophyta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EmbryophytaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 422 million years on record.
The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 0 Mya.
12,000+ occurrences of Tracheophyta on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
12,000 occurrences read- Silurianunder 1%
- Devonian4%
- Carboniferous21%
- Permian6%
- Early Triassicunder 1%
- Middle Triassicunder 1%
- Late Triassic8%
- Early Jurassicunder 1%
- Middle Jurassicunder 1%
- Late Jurassicunder 1%
- Early Cretaceous2%
- Late Cretaceousunder 1%
- Paleocene4%
- Eocene14%
- Oligocene7%
- Miocene25%
- Pliocene4%
- Pleistocene2%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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. The read hit its cap, so every figure above is a floor and the shares are of the occurrences read. More on what this infers.
Found in
at least 253 formations
- Willwood Formation710
- Molteno Formation · Stormberg Group434
- Carbondale Formation · Kewanee Group318
- Fort Union Formation310
- Santa Clara Formation · Barranca Group282
- Itahana Formation · Tomioka Group270
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The named rock units Tracheophyta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. The read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 229 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5,491 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
879 taxa- Laevigatosporites61 sites
- Punctatisporites61 sites
- Lycospora55 sites
- Punctatosporites51 sites
- Calamospora50 sites
- Florinites50 sites
- Neuropteris49 sites
- Pecopteris42 sites
- Sphenophyllum41 sites
- Granulatisporites37 sites
- Triquitrites35 sites
- Thymospora34 sites
- Granasporites medius31 sites
- Cordaites30 sites
- Potonieisporites30 sites
- Deltoidospora29 sites
- Spinosporites29 sites
- Apiculatasporites28 sites
- Wilsonites vesicatus28 sites
- Cyclogranisporites27 sites
- Laevigatosporites vulgaris27 sites
- Lepidodendron26 sites
- Calamites25 sites
- Spermatophyta25 sites
The Paleobiology Database records at least 266 sites for Tracheophyta, and this reads 240 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
at least 297 references- Die mittelmiozaenen und obermiozaenen Floren aus der Meuroer und Raunoer Folge in der Lausitz. III. Fundstellen und Palaeobiologie1,491
- Plant and mammal diversity in the Paleocene to Early Eocene of the Bighorn Basin1,059
- Tretichnye Flory Zapadnoi Sibiri894
- Late Miocene and Pliocene Floras in Central Honshu, Japan789
- Table 35 Molteno vegetative genera, phytosociological table469
- Die pliozaenen Floren von Thueringen, Deutsche Demokratische Republik415
- A drowned lycopsid forest above the Mahoning Coal (Conemaugh Group, Upper Pennsylvanian) in eastern Ohio, U.S.A394
- Paleoecological and Floristic Heterogeneity in the Plant-Fossil Record - An Analysis Based on the Eocene of Washington364
- Anderson and Anderson, 1985348
- Correlation and Palynology of Coals in the Carbondale and Spoon Formations (Pennsylvanian) of the Northeastern Part of the Illinois Basin335
- Palynology of the Lost Branch Formation of Kansas--new insights on the major floral transition at the Middle-Upper Pennsylvanian boundary320
- Stratigraphic relations of the plant beds262
Each of the 12,000 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. That read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 285 further references are not listed. 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
Media content1
Picture of Tracheophyta
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Tracheophyta 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sinnott 1935)