Cladophlebis

Cladophlebis is an extinct form genus of fern, which has been reported from the Permian to the end of the Cretaceous and from all continents of the world.

Cladophlebis

Jonathan Chen · CC BY 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
PolypodiopsidaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 227 million years on record.

The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 56 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 2433 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 2433 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 2433 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 2433 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 2433 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 65 of 2433 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 51 of 2433 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 61 of 2433 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 350 of 2433 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 683 of 2433 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 633 of 2433 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 378 of 2433 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 179 of 2433 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 32 of 2433 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 2433 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 2433 occurrences548–532 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences532–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–498 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences498–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–381 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences381–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–297 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences297–281 Mya — about 10 occurrences281–264 Mya — about 16 occurrences264–247 Mya — about 89 occurrences247–230 Mya — about 134 occurrences230–214 Mya — about 145 occurrences214–197 Mya — about 260 occurrences197–180 Mya — about 415 occurrences180–164 Mya — about 712 occurrences164–147 Mya — about 347 occurrences147–130 Mya — about 140 occurrences130–113 Mya — about 84 occurrences113–97 Mya — about 56 occurrences97–80 Mya — about 15 occurrences80–63 Mya — about 9 occurrences63–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences293.52 Mya66 Mya548 Mya46 Mya

2,433 occurrences of Cladophlebis on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

2,433 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

509 formations

Steierdorf — 45.08°N, 21.85°EKootenai — 47.48°N, 111.37°WSaltwick — 54.40°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.50°N, 0.75°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.37°N, 1.25°WUpper Korkino Suite — 54.80°N, 61.80°EBhuj — 23.32°N, 69.77°EBhuj — 23.37°N, 69.71°EBhuj — 23.20°N, 69.56°EBhuj — 23.09°N, 69.52°EBhuj — 23.18°N, 69.38°EBhuj — 23.08°N, 69.32°EBhuj — 23.28°N, 69.36°EBhuj — 23.31°N, 69.32°EBhuj — 23.48°N, 69.27°EBhuj — 23.11°N, 69.56°EBhuj — 23.60°N, 69.00°EBhuj — 23.21°N, 70.08°EBhuj — 23.68°N, 68.87°EBhuj — 23.10°N, 69.43°EBasal and coal-bearing Suite — 42.50°N, 78.70°EBasal and coal-bearing Suite — 42.60°N, 79.00°EBerge Suite — 66.10°N, 123.70°EBerge Suite — 63.80°N, 127.40°EBerge Suite — 64.50°N, 125.80°EBerge Suite — 64.90°N, 124.60°EBerge Suite — 63.50°N, 118.80°EBerge Suite — 63.60°N, 119.80°EUpper Kushmur Suite — 52.50°N, 64.70°EDubovka Suite — 49.80°N, 73.10°ETaldykol' Suite — 51.10°N, 75.60°ETaldykol' Suite — 51.20°N, 75.60°EDzhelon Suite — 55.00°N, 135.40°EDzhelon Suite — 55.20°N, 135.60°EMone — 38.90°N, 141.60°EShoptykol' Suite — 51.10°N, 75.60°ELower Dzhizhikrut Suite — 39.20°N, 68.50°EBoroldai Suite — 43.00°N, 70.00°EDzhil' Suite — 41.80°N, 74.00°EDzhil' Suite — 42.70°N, 77.20°EDzharsu Suite — 44.20°N, 52.50°EDzharsu Suite — 44.40°N, 51.30°EDzharsu Suite — 43.10°N, 54.90°EDzharsu Suite — 43.60°N, 53.60°EDzharsu Suite — 44.20°N, 51.90°EUpper Dep Suite — 52.90°N, 127.60°EUpper Dep Suite — 53.10°N, 127.30°EUpper Dep Suite — 53.10°N, 127.90°ESanta Clara — 28.56°N, 110.20°WSanta Clara — 28.58°N, 109.67°WSanta Clara — 28.55°N, 109.35°WLinshan — 28.40°N, 117.50°ELinshan — 27.00°N, 116.00°ELinshan — 27.30°N, 115.10°ELinshan — 28.40°N, 118.30°ELinshan — 27.90°N, 114.90°ELinshan — 27.00°N, 114.20°ELinshan — 26.00°N, 115.50°EXinshikou — 40.00°N, 116.00°EAshchikol' Suite — 51.50°N, 75.60°EAshchikol' Suite — 51.20°N, 75.60°EAyak Suite — 52.90°N, 127.70°EAyak Suite — 53.40°N, 127.90°EAksai Suite — 42.70°N, 77.20°E

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The named rock units Cladophlebis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 485 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 625 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cladophlebis and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Cladophlebis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

650 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 830 sites for Cladophlebis, 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

341 references

Each of the 2,433 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. 329 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Cladophlebis

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cladophlebis 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. Brongniart 1849