Cyathea

Cyathea is a genus of tree ferns, the type genus of the fern order Cyatheales.

Cyathea

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 123 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 123 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 123 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 123 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 123 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 123 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 123 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 123 occurrencesEocene — about 32 of 123 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 123 occurrencesMiocene — about 20 of 123 occurrencesPliocene — about 7 of 123 occurrencesPleistocene — about 49 of 123 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences226–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–193 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences185–177 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences177–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–145 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences145–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–129 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences129–121 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–48 Mya — about 27 occurrences48–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 6 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 18 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 58 occurrences201.4 Mya11.7 ka242 Mya0 Mya

123 occurrences of Cyathea on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

123 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

15 formations

Willwood — 44.16°N, 108.55°WWillwood — 44.17°N, 108.48°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 107.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.33°WWillwood — 44.28°N, 108.05°WWasatch — 41.71°N, 107.85°WWasatch — 41.93°N, 107.99°WWasatch — 41.82°N, 108.03°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WSan Sebastian — 18.29°N, 66.87°WSan Sebastian — 18.37°N, 66.19°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.87°WGatun — 9.13°N, 79.95°WLa Boca — 9.07°N, 79.67°WFoulden Hills Diatomite — 45.53°S, 170.22°ETatman — 44.16°N, 108.55°WYanan — 40.30°N, 110.00°ETyrma Suite — 50.00°N, 132.10°ELower Urgal Suite (Dublikan Suite) — 51.10°N, 132.80°ECucaracha — 9.02°N, 79.63°WCullen — 52.87°S, 68.41°WKimin — 27.08°N, 93.65°EPiney Point — 37.67°N, 77.14°W

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The named rock units Cyathea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 60 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyathea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cyathea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

781 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 109 sites for Cyathea, 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 123 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 content2

Picture of Cyathea

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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What may have been alongside itCyatheaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith 1793