Bryopsida

The Bryopsida constitute the largest class of mosses, containing 95% of all moss species. It consists of approximately 11,500 species, common throughout the whole world.

Bryopsida

Kristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 09:51, 31 December 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
BryophytaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 249 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 129 ka.

Permian — about 2 of 342 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 342 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 342 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 19 of 342 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 342 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 342 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 342 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 41 of 342 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 97 of 342 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 127 of 342 occurrencesEocene — about 32 of 342 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 342 occurrencesMiocene — about 12 of 342 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 342 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 342 occurrences259–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences251–242 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences242–233 Mya — about 4 occurrences233–225 Mya — about 7 occurrences225–216 Mya — about 3 occurrences216–207 Mya — about 3 occurrences207–199 Mya — about 2 occurrences173–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–138 Mya — about 1 occurrence138–130 Mya — about 1 occurrence130–121 Mya — about 2 occurrences121–112 Mya — about 10 occurrences112–104 Mya — about 20 occurrences104–95 Mya — about 27 occurrences95–86 Mya — about 6 occurrences86–78 Mya — about 10 occurrences78–69 Mya — about 35 occurrences69–60 Mya — about 125 occurrences60–52 Mya — about 37 occurrences52–43 Mya — about 11 occurrences43–35 Mya — about 11 occurrences35–26 Mya — about 4 occurrences26–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–8.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences8.6–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences251.902 Mya2.58 Mya259 Mya0 Mya

342 occurrences of Bryopsida on record, most of them in the Paleocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

342 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

53 formations

Fort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WFort Union — 46.48°N, 105.67°WFort Union — 44.71°N, 106.17°WFort Union — 44.83°N, 106.09°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 106.06°WFort Union — 46.60°N, 105.68°WFort Union — 45.59°N, 105.68°WFort Union — 45.55°N, 105.72°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.83°WBathurst Island — 11.79°S, 130.23°EBathurst Island — 11.78°S, 130.35°ETurtel Mountain — 49.06°N, 100.56°WMonte Chico — 51.59°S, 72.41°WMonte Chico — 51.18°S, 72.29°WMolteno — 29.50°S, 29.50°EMolteno — 30.50°S, 29.00°EMolteno — 28.57°S, 29.05°EMolteno — 31.47°S, 26.43°EMolteno — 31.47°S, 26.83°EMolteno — 31.52°S, 26.90°EMolteno — 30.00°S, 29.00°EMolteno — 31.50°S, 27.93°EMolteno — 31.57°S, 26.23°EMolteno — 31.53°S, 26.23°EMolteno — 30.48°S, 27.10°EMolteno — 30.68°S, 26.95°EMolteno — 31.50°S, 27.00°EMolteno — 31.52°S, 27.95°EHell Creek — 46.29°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.31°S, 56.88°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.33°S, 56.85°WTambo — 27.34°S, 135.72°ETambo — 29.13°S, 140.88°ERunnymede — 37.37°S, 140.90°EWasatch — 44.63°N, 106.17°WWasatch — 44.71°N, 106.17°WDensuș-Ciula — 45.62°N, 22.78°ECerro Dorotea — 51.59°S, 72.41°WBatylykh — 62.73°N, 117.61°ETaratu — 43.18°S, 171.78°EDinosaur Park — 50.82°N, 111.57°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.49°WScollard — 51.93°N, 112.83°WKachaike — 48.85°S, 72.15°WKachaike — 48.85°S, 72.15°WWhisky Bay — 63.87°S, 58.08°WKotick Point — 64.00°S, 58.36°WKotick Point — 64.01°S, 58.35°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.30°S, 56.75°WMacquarie Harbor — 42.17°S, 145.36°EPaso del Sapo — 42.67°S, 70.01°WLoncoche — 36.53°S, 69.82°W

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The named rock units Bryopsida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 57 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bryopsida and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Bryopsida and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

2,088 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 230 sites for Bryopsida, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

67 references

Each of the 342 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. 55 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 Bryopsida

Credit
Kristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 09:51, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Bryopsida 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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