Actinopteris

No picture of Actinopteris 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 Actinopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 136 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences204–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–138 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences129–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences106–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences204 Mya63 Mya

4 occurrences of Actinopteris 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

4 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

3 formations

Bhuj — 23.79°N, 68.85°EPariwar — 27.11°N, 70.58°ESivaganga — 9.85°N, 78.48°E

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The named rock units Actinopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Actinopteris and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Actinopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

53 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Actinopteris, 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 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Actinopteris 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 Actinopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Actinopteris 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 itPteridophyta through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schenk 1865