Chiropteris

Chiropteris

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 128 million years on record.

The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 293.52 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Permian — about 23 of 51 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 51 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 9 of 51 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 15 of 51 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 51 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 51 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 51 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 51 occurrences297–291 Mya — about 3 occurrences291–286 Mya — about 2 occurrences286–281 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences281–276 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences276–270 Mya — about 2 occurrences270–265 Mya — about 2 occurrences265–260 Mya — about 5 occurrences260–255 Mya — about 6 occurrences255–250 Mya — about 2 occurrences250–244 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences244–239 Mya — about 5 occurrences239–234 Mya — about 6 occurrences234–229 Mya — about 4 occurrences229–224 Mya — about 2 occurrences224–218 Mya — about 1 occurrence218–213 Mya — about 1 occurrence213–208 Mya — about 1 occurrence208–203 Mya — about 2 occurrences203–197 Mya — about 1 occurrence197–192 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences192–187 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences187–182 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences182–177 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences177–171 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences166–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–156 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences156–151 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences151–145 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences145–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290.1 Mya161.5 Mya297 Mya140 Mya

51 occurrences of Chiropteris on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

51 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

19 formations

Molteno — 29.50°S, 29.50°EMolteno — 31.47°S, 26.43°EMolteno — 31.47°S, 26.83°EMolteno — 31.05°S, 26.80°EMolteno — 31.53°S, 26.23°EMolteno — 30.48°S, 27.10°EErfurt — 51.75°N, 11.03°ECoal-bearing — 39.70°N, 126.20°ECoal-bearing — 39.40°N, 126.90°EHanalri — 36.70°N, 128.10°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.60°N, 37.50°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.60°N, 37.40°ELower La Golondrina — 48.00°S, 68.00°WRio Bonito — 28.70°S, 49.30°WHuaqiao — 28.60°N, 119.30°ELongjiang — 49.10°N, 120.70°ECuipingshan — 24.30°N, 116.10°EShuanquan — 40.00°N, 116.20°EShiqianfeng — 41.70°N, 125.90°EGuye — 39.60°N, 118.30°ELiujiangchun — 39.90°N, 119.60°ELinjia — 41.30°N, 123.70°ETosagok — 37.20°N, 129.00°ELower Osinniki and Tersyuk Suites — 54.50°N, 87.00°EAmisan — 36.53°N, 126.77°EBongmyeongri — 36.53°N, 128.09°E

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The named rock units Chiropteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chiropteris and its relatives

Permian

Where Chiropteris and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

349 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Chiropteris, 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

26 references

Each of the 51 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. 14 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 Chiropteris

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No 3D scan of Chiropteris 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 itPteridospermales through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kurr 1845