Baiera

Baiera is a genus of prehistoric gymnosperms in the order Ginkgoales. It is one of the oldest fossil foliage types of Ginkgoales, and is related to the genera Ginkgo and Ginkgoites. Fossils of Baiera are found worldwide, and have been known from the Permian to the Cretaceous.

Baiera

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 189 million years on record.

The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 414 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 414 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 30 of 414 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 3 of 414 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 8 of 414 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 102 of 414 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 77 of 414 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 101 of 414 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 75 of 414 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 16 of 414 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 414 occurrences364–355 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences355–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–337 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences337–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–300 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300–291 Mya — about 2 occurrences291–281 Mya — about 4 occurrences281–272 Mya — about 2 occurrences272–263 Mya — about 4 occurrences263–254 Mya — about 18 occurrences254–245 Mya — about 6 occurrences245–236 Mya — about 10 occurrences236–226 Mya — about 22 occurrences226–217 Mya — about 25 occurrences217–208 Mya — about 25 occurrences208–199 Mya — about 35 occurrences199–190 Mya — about 26 occurrences190–180 Mya — about 26 occurrences180–171 Mya — about 45 occurrences171–162 Mya — about 70 occurrences162–153 Mya — about 32 occurrences153–144 Mya — about 44 occurrences144–135 Mya — about 6 occurrences135–125 Mya — about 2 occurrences125–116 Mya — about 6 occurrences116–107 Mya — about 4 occurrences107–98 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences98–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences290.1 Mya100.5 Mya364 Mya89 Mya

414 occurrences of Baiera on record, most of them in the Late 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

414 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

182 formations

Werra — 51.52°N, 11.55°EDabao — 41.60°N, 125.00°EDabao — 41.40°N, 124.00°ECape Stewart — 70.50°N, 22.60°WFuxing — 42.00°N, 121.50°EFuxing — 42.30°N, 123.90°EFuxing — 42.30°N, 119.00°EXishanyao — 44.00°N, 89.00°EXishanyao — 44.00°N, 88.00°EXishanyao — 44.00°N, 87.20°EXishanyao — 42.60°N, 93.20°EShahuozi — 44.20°N, 126.00°EErbek Suite — 51.60°N, 94.20°EErbek Suite — 51.50°N, 95.50°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.80°N, 37.60°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.60°N, 37.50°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.60°N, 37.40°EDameigou — 38.00°N, 95.40°EDameigou — 38.00°N, 91.80°EDameigou — 36.90°N, 98.50°EChangan — 43.50°N, 125.50°EDaken — 25.50°N, 117.60°EWenbinshan — 25.50°N, 117.60°ELower Dzhaskoi Suite — 66.70°N, 123.30°ESaltwick — 54.50°N, 0.75°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.33°N, 0.50°WPotrerillos — 33.00°S, 69.10°WPotrerillos — 33.08°S, 69.11°WAnyuan — 27.60°N, 113.80°EAnyuan — 29.80°N, 118.50°EYushanjian — 30.30°N, 119.70°EYushanjian — 29.30°N, 119.50°EYushanjian — 29.70°N, 120.20°ELinshan — 28.40°N, 117.50°ELinshan — 27.30°N, 115.10°ELinshan — 27.90°N, 114.90°ELower Xiangshan — 32.00°N, 118.80°EMazhong — 28.90°N, 118.50°EMazhong — 29.40°N, 119.30°EBataowuan — 43.00°N, 93.20°EBataowuan — 43.00°N, 89.10°EJiangchang — 37.10°N, 99.00°EDatong — 39.00°N, 112.20°EDatong — 40.10°N, 113.10°EHongqi — 42.80°N, 126.40°EHongqi — 48.00°N, 122.80°E

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The named rock units Baiera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 158 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 96 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Baiera and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Baiera and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

518 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 297 sites for Baiera, and this reads 240 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

130 references

Each of the 414 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. 118 further references are not listed. 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

Media content1

Picture of Baiera

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Baiera 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Braun 1843