Cyatheites

Cyatheites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 2 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227.3 Mya205.7 Mya237.7 Mya200.7 Mya

2 occurrences of Cyatheites 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

2 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.

Cyatheites and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cyatheites, 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

1 reference

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Cyatheites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cyatheites was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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 Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goeppert 1836