Coniogramme
Coniogramme is one of three genera in the subfamily Cryptogrammoideae of the fern family Pteridaceae. Species originate from Africa and Asia, with a cultivar of Coniogramme pilosa, known as "bamboo fern."

Forest & Kim Starr · CC BY 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
- CryptogrammoideaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Coniogramme on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Coniogramme has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Coniogramme and its relatives
MioceneWhere Coniogramme and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Acer2 sites
- Actinodaphne1 site
- Alangium1 site
- Ardisia1 site
- Bambusa1 site
- Castanopsis1 site
- Celastrus1 site
- Cinnamomum1 site
- Cleyera1 site
- Diospyros1 site
- Fabaceae1 site
- Lithocarpus1 site
- Machilus1 site
- Mallotus1 site
- Perrotetia miocenica1 site
- Perrottetia1 site
- Photinia1 site
- Phyllostachys1 site
- Rhapis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Coniogramme, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Fossil seed from the Miocene Shihti Formation of Taiwan1
- A catalogue of Cenozoic megafossil plants in China1
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 content1
Picture of Coniogramme
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Forest & Kim Starr
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Coniogramme 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Coniogramme”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCryptogrammoideae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fée 1852