Dipteridaceae

The Dipteridaceae is a family of ferns in the order Gleicheniales of the class Polypodiopsida. They are commonly known as umbrella ferns and contain two genera, Cheiropleuria and Dipteris, with a total of nine species confined to Asia, New Guinea and northern Australia While currently a small family, they were much more abundant in the Mesozoic era, with the oldest fossils being known from the Middle Triassic of Italy, Australia and Argentina. A number of fossil genera are recognised, including Hausmannia, Clathropteris, Dictyophyllum, Sewardalea, Thaumatopteris, Camptopteris, Patagoniapteris, Goeppertella, and Polyphacelus.

Dipteridaceae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 171 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 641 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 641 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 9 of 641 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 250 of 641 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 191 of 641 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 87 of 641 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 43 of 641 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 41 of 641 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 17 of 641 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 641 occurrences256–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–243 Mya — about 1 occurrence243–236 Mya — about 13 occurrences236–229 Mya — about 26 occurrences229–223 Mya — about 40 occurrences223–216 Mya — about 46 occurrences216–210 Mya — about 46 occurrences210–203 Mya — about 65 occurrences203–196 Mya — about 71 occurrences196–190 Mya — about 51 occurrences190–183 Mya — about 40 occurrences183–177 Mya — about 39 occurrences177–170 Mya — about 47 occurrences170–163 Mya — about 43 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 15 occurrences157–150 Mya — about 20 occurrences150–144 Mya — about 14 occurrences144–137 Mya — about 3 occurrences137–130 Mya — about 4 occurrences130–124 Mya — about 6 occurrences124–117 Mya — about 10 occurrences117–111 Mya — about 9 occurrences111–104 Mya — about 6 occurrences104–97 Mya — about 5 occurrences97–91 Mya — about 4 occurrences91–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–64 Mya — about 8 occurrences64–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences237 Mya66 Mya256 Mya58 Mya

641 occurrences of Dipteridaceae on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

641 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

191 formations

Cape Stewart — 70.50°N, 22.60°WSteierdorf — 45.08°N, 21.85°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.80°N, 37.60°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.60°N, 37.50°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.60°N, 37.40°EBearreraig Sandstone — 57.50°N, 6.13°WBagong — 31.10°N, 97.20°EBagong — 30.80°N, 97.50°EBagong — 31.00°N, 98.30°EAmisan — 36.20°N, 126.80°EAmisan — 36.33°N, 126.64°EAmisan — 36.53°N, 126.77°EKrivorechenskaya — 64.48°N, 168.92°ESaltwick — 54.40°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.37°N, 1.25°WMine — 56.10°N, 12.85°EMine — 56.08°N, 12.90°EPaso Flores — 40.40°S, 70.60°WPaso Flores — 40.50°S, 70.50°WWenbinshan — 25.50°N, 117.60°EDaqiaode — 26.60°N, 101.80°ELamaya — 28.90°N, 99.70°ELamaya — 30.00°N, 100.20°ESanta Juana — 37.10°S, 72.90°WSanta Juana — 37.20°S, 72.84°WLa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.75°WLa Colonia — 43.02°S, 67.66°WLa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WLa Colonia — 42.97°S, 67.54°WAnyuan — 27.60°N, 113.80°EHuaqiao — 28.60°N, 119.30°EMalugou — 43.50°N, 129.60°EJiaoking — 27.30°N, 117.40°EBaiguowan — 29.00°N, 102.80°EBaiguowan — 28.30°N, 102.50°EBaiguowan — 26.60°N, 102.20°EYinzhuniangar — 31.00°N, 100.30°EAyak Suite — 52.90°N, 127.70°EKokala Suite — 44.30°N, 51.80°EKokala Suite — 44.10°N, 52.20°ESandzhar Suite — 39.20°N, 68.60°ESandzhar Suite — 38.50°N, 68.60°E

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The named rock units Dipteridaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 167 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 235 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dipteridaceae and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

484 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 381 sites for Dipteridaceae, 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

191 references

Each of the 641 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. 179 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 content1

Picture of Dipteridaceae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Dipteridaceae 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

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Seward and Dale