Vertebraria indica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VertebrariaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 53 million years on record.
The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
77 occurrences of Vertebraria indica on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
77 occurrences- Carboniferousunder 1%
- Permian95%
- Early Triassic3%
- Late Triassic1%
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
21 formations
- Barakar Formation6
- Burngrove Formation · Blackwater Group4
- Black Alley Shale Formation · Back Creek Group3
- Raniganj Formation3
- MacMillan Formation · Back Creek Group2
- Baralaba Coal Measures Formation · Blackwater Group2
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The named rock units Vertebraria indica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Vertebraria indica and its relatives
PermianWhere Vertebraria indica and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
507 taxa- Glossopteris communis30 sites
- Glossopteris indica29 sites
- Glossopteris angustifolia22 sites
- Schizoneura gondwanensis21 sites
- Samaropsis20 sites
- Glossopteris18 sites
- Glossopteris damudica13 sites
- Gangamopteris cyclopteroides12 sites
- Glossopteris browniana12 sites
- Trizygia speciosa10 sites
- Neomariopteris lobifolia9 sites
- Paracalamites9 sites
- Phyllotheca australis9 sites
- Cordaites spatulata8 sites
- Glossopteris raniganjensis8 sites
- Dichotomopteris lindleyi7 sites
- Glossopteris stricta7 sites
- Neomariopteris hughesi7 sites
- Schizoneura7 sites
- Glossopteris conspicua6 sites
- Glossopteris leptoneura6 sites
- Phyllotheca6 sites
- Cordaites hislopi5 sites
- Dadoxylon5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 77 sites for Vertebraria indica, 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
5 references- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants50
- Late Permian Plant Megafossils from the Bowen Basin, Queensland, Australia: Part 116
- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 2: Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Megafossils9
- An autochthonous glossopterid flora with latest Permian palynomorphs and its depositional setting in the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone of the southern Karoo Basin, South Africa1
- Provincialism in Gondwana floras1
Each of the 77 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 Vertebraria indica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Vertebraria indica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vertebraria indica 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. Royle 1839