Cyatheaceae

The Cyatheaceae are a family of ferns, the scaly tree ferns, one of eight families in the order Cyatheales in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016. Alternatively, the family may defined much more broadly as the only family in the Cyatheales, with the PPG I family treated as the subfamily Cyatheoideae. The narrower circumscription is used in this article.

Cyatheaceae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
scaly tree fernPBDB
Sits inside
CyathealesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 307 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 1389 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 9 of 1389 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 15 of 1389 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 3 of 1389 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 1389 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 23 of 1389 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 211 of 1389 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 618 of 1389 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 243 of 1389 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 108 of 1389 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 1389 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 1389 occurrencesEocene — about 34 of 1389 occurrencesOligocene — about 12 of 1389 occurrencesMiocene — about 22 of 1389 occurrencesPliocene — about 13 of 1389 occurrencesPleistocene — about 61 of 1389 occurrences366–354 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences354–342 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences342–329 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences329–317 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences317–305 Mya — about 4 occurrences305–293 Mya — about 6 occurrences293–281 Mya — about 5 occurrences281–268 Mya — about 3 occurrences268–256 Mya — about 3 occurrences256–244 Mya — about 4 occurrences244–232 Mya — about 7 occurrences232–220 Mya — about 7 occurrences220–207 Mya — about 3 occurrences207–195 Mya — about 44 occurrences195–183 Mya — about 89 occurrences183–171 Mya — about 266 occurrences171–159 Mya — about 468 occurrences159–146 Mya — about 159 occurrences146–134 Mya — about 69 occurrences134–122 Mya — about 27 occurrences122–110 Mya — about 46 occurrences110–98 Mya — about 22 occurrences98–85 Mya — about 4 occurrences85–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–61 Mya — about 3 occurrences61–49 Mya — about 29 occurrences49–37 Mya — about 4 occurrences37–24 Mya — about 11 occurrences24–12 Mya — about 22 occurrences12–0 Mya — about 81 occurrences307.4 Mya11.7 ka366 Mya0 Mya

1,389 occurrences of Cyatheaceae on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

1,389 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

345 formations

Kootenai — 47.48°N, 111.37°WKrivorechenskaya — 64.48°N, 168.92°EWillwood — 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°WSaltwick — 54.40°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.50°N, 0.75°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.37°N, 1.25°WSaltwick — 54.33°N, 0.50°WDzharsu Suite — 44.20°N, 52.50°EDzharsu Suite — 44.40°N, 51.30°EDzharsu Suite — 43.10°N, 54.90°EDzharsu Suite — 44.20°N, 51.90°EChengzhi — 45.90°N, 133.00°EItat — 56.10°N, 93.10°EItat — 56.40°N, 93.20°EItat — 56.30°N, 90.50°EItat — 57.50°N, 88.50°ETyumen' Suite — 58.30°N, 83.00°ETyumen' Suite — 57.00°N, 74.90°ETyumen' Suite — 58.90°N, 81.80°ETyumen' Suite — 55.00°N, 73.40°ETyumen' Suite — 55.20°N, 76.00°ETyumen' Suite — 57.10°N, 65.40°EErbek Suite — 51.60°N, 94.20°EErbek Suite — 51.50°N, 95.50°ELower Dzhizhikrut Suite — 39.20°N, 68.50°ELongjiagou — 34.20°N, 105.10°ELongjiagou — 33.60°N, 104.80°ELongjiagou — 33.90°N, 106.50°EKaradiirmen' Suite — 44.10°N, 52.20°EKaradiirmen' Suite — 43.10°N, 54.90°EKaradiirmen' Suite — 43.60°N, 53.60°EGatun — 9.27°N, 79.87°WGatun — 9.13°N, 79.95°WBhuj — 23.79°N, 68.85°EBhuj — 23.22°N, 69.74°EBhuj — 23.20°N, 69.56°EBhuj — 23.08°N, 69.32°EBhuj — 23.48°N, 69.27°EBhuj — 23.60°N, 69.00°EBhuj — 23.39°N, 71.09°EBhuj — 23.32°N, 69.77°EBhuj — 23.37°N, 69.71°EBhuj — 23.21°N, 70.08°EWasatch — 41.71°N, 107.85°WWasatch — 41.93°N, 107.99°WWasatch — 41.82°N, 108.03°WFuxing — 42.00°N, 121.50°EFuxing — 42.30°N, 123.90°EFuxing — 42.30°N, 119.00°EYanan — 40.30°N, 110.00°EYanan — 35.00°N, 106.90°EYanan — 39.00°N, 108.00°EYanan — 41.00°N, 112.50°ERajmahal — 25.24°N, 87.71°ERajmahal — 25.23°N, 87.49°ERajmahal — 20.52°N, 85.63°ECloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WCloughton — 54.17°N, 0.25°WOzhogino Suite — 66.40°N, 149.50°EOzhogino Suite — 66.10°N, 148.90°EOzhogino Suite — 65.60°N, 149.40°EUpper Tanasha Suite — 44.50°N, 51.60°EUpper Tanasha Suite — 43.10°N, 54.10°EUpper Tanasha Suite — 43.30°N, 53.60°EUpper Dep Suite — 52.90°N, 127.60°EUpper Dep Suite — 53.10°N, 127.30°EUpper Dep Suite — 53.10°N, 127.90°EUpper Gring Suite — 38.20°N, 70.40°EBalabansai — 40.80°N, 73.40°EBalabansai — 40.00°N, 70.50°E

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The named rock units Cyatheaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 321 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 314 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyatheaceae and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Cyatheaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

566 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 740 sites for Cyatheaceae, 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

247 references

Each of the 1,389 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. 235 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 Cyatheaceae

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B.navez
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3D model

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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

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

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