Aipteris

No picture of Aipteris was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Aipteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 4 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 2 of 4 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241.464 Mya205.7 Mya247.9 Mya200.5 Mya

4 occurrences of Aipteris on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

Ermayong — 39.70°N, 111.00°EVayaobao — 35.20°N, 109.20°ELinjia — 41.30°N, 123.70°E

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The named rock units Aipteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aipteris and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Aipteris and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

61 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Aipteris, 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

4 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 Aipteris was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Aipteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Aipteris 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPeltaspermaceae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zalessky 1934