Asplenium dicksonianum

Asplenium dicksonianum

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 48 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 12 of 18 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 18 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 18 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 2 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 2 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 2 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences114.1 Mya65.1 Mya

18 occurrences of Asplenium dicksonianum 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

18 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

Krivorechenskaya — 64.48°N, 168.92°ECheyenne Sandstone — 37.45°N, 99.08°W"Sehuense" — 47.94°S, 66.87°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°W

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The named rock units Asplenium dicksonianum 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.

Asplenium dicksonianum and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Asplenium dicksonianum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

178 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Asplenium dicksonianum, 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

Each of the 18 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Asplenium dicksonianum

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Asplenium dicksonianum 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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What may have been alongside itAsplenium through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heer 1874