Caulopteris

Caulopteris

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 130 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 247 Mya.

Devonian — about 5 of 12 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 12 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 12 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 2 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrences396–391 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences391–386 Mya — about 1 occurrence386–381 Mya — about 1 occurrence381–376 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences376–371 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences371–366 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences366–361 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences361–356 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences356–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences320–315 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences315–310 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences310–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences305–300 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences300–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–269 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences269–264 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences264–259 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences259–254 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences254–249 Mya — about 1 occurrence249–244 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences382.31 Mya251.902 Mya396 Mya244 Mya

12 occurrences of Caulopteris on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

12 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

Corniferous Limestone — 40.00°N, 82.00°WWide Bay — 78.83°N, 18.00°ELawrence Shale — 38.77°N, 95.18°WUldzinskaya Suite — 47.80°N, 110.40°E

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The named rock units Caulopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Caulopteris and its relatives

Devonian

Where Caulopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

72 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Caulopteris, 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

9 references

Each of the 12 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 content2

Picture of Caulopteris

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itMarattiaceae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindley and Hutton 1832