Ctenopteris

A picture published with the record for Ctenopteris. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
CycadophytaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 132 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 19 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 2 of 19 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 19 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 19 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 19 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 19 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 19 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 19 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 19 occurrences287–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–262 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences262–255 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences255–249 Mya — about 1 occurrence249–243 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences243–236 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences236–230 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences230–224 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences224–217 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences217–211 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences211–205 Mya — about 2 occurrences205–198 Mya — about 3 occurrences173–167 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences167–160 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences160–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–148 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences148–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–135 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences135–129 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences129–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–110 Mya — about 1 occurrence110–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251.902 Mya119.57 Mya287 Mya97 Mya

19 occurrences of Ctenopteris on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

19 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

6 formations

Anyuan — 27.60°N, 113.80°EAnyuan — 28.50°N, 118.00°ECiano — 3.87°S, 80.07°WDaqiaode — 26.60°N, 101.80°ECoal-bearing — 39.70°N, 126.20°EYagman coal Suite — 39.80°N, 54.30°ECommotion — 54.42°N, 120.37°W

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The named rock units Ctenopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ctenopteris and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Ctenopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

159 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Ctenopteris, 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

12 references

Each of the 19 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 Ctenopteris

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCycadophyta through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Saporta 1872