Aspidistes

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 7 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 3 of 7 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 7 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences197–194 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences192–190 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182–180 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180–178 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences178–176 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 1 occurrence152–150 Mya — about 1 occurrence150–148 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences170.9 Mya154.8 Mya203 Mya142 Mya

7 occurrences of Aspidistes on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

7 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

4 formations

Lower Saltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WCycle — 30.60°N, 34.80°EKurnub — 29.10°N, 33.60°ECloughton — 54.17°N, 0.25°W

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The named rock units Aspidistes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aspidistes and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Aspidistes and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

92 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Aspidistes, 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

6 references

Each of the 7 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

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

No 3D scan of Aspidistes 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 itFilicales through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harris 1961