Callipteris
Searched as Callipteris flabellifera moorei. The Paleobiology Database treats Callipteris as the accepted name.
No picture of Callipteris 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 Callipteris, 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 most 25 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Callipteris on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
2 formations
- Stanton Limestone Formation · Lansing Group1
- Hartford Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Callipteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Callipteris and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Callipteris and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
389 taxa- Pecopteris92 sites
- Annularia59 sites
- Odontopteris58 sites
- Taeniopteris57 sites
- Sphenopteris53 sites
- Sphenophyllum52 sites
- Cordaites44 sites
- Noeggerathiopsis42 sites
- Paracalamites40 sites
- Walchia36 sites
- Lebachia35 sites
- Neuropteris34 sites
- Samaropsis33 sites
- Comia32 sites
- Compsopteris31 sites
- Lebachia piniformis29 sites
- Calamites28 sites
- Phyllotheca28 sites
- Psygmophyllum28 sites
- Callipteridium27 sites
- Ernestiodendron filiciforme27 sites
- Asterophyllites26 sites
- Crassinervia25 sites
- Lepeophyllum <sp. 1>25 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 151 sites for Callipteris, 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
2 references- Plant megafossils from the Hartford Limestone (Virgilian-Upper Pennsylvanian) near Hamilton, Kansas1
- A Late Pennsylvanian upland flora in Kansas: Systematics and environmental implications1
Each of the 2 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. 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 content0
No picture of Callipteris 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 Callipteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Callipteris 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 CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1849