Dryopteridaceae

The Dryopteridaceae are a family of leptosporangiate ferns in the order Polypodiales. They are known colloquially as the wood ferns. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), the family is placed in the suborder Polypodiineae. Alternatively, it may be treated as the subfamily Dryopteridoideae of a very broadly defined family Polypodiaceae sensu lato.

Dryopteridaceae

Franz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
PolypodiineaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 227 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 260 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 41 of 260 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 45 of 260 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 83 of 260 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 21 of 260 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 260 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 260 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 9 of 260 occurrencesEocene — about 13 of 260 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 260 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 260 occurrencesPliocene — about 3 of 260 occurrencesPleistocene — about 21 of 260 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 4 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 9 occurrences226–218 Mya — about 9 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 9 occurrences210–201 Mya — about 9 occurrences201–193 Mya — about 13 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 13 occurrences185–177 Mya — about 14 occurrences177–169 Mya — about 41 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 47 occurrences161–153 Mya — about 6 occurrences153–145 Mya — about 11 occurrences145–137 Mya — about 5 occurrences137–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–121 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences121–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–105 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences105–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 4 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 7 occurrences56–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–32 Mya — about 8 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 27 occurrences227.3 Mya11.7 ka242 Mya0 Mya

260 occurrences of Dryopteridaceae 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

260 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

102 formations

Cape Stewart — 70.50°N, 22.60°WSaltwick — 54.40°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.37°N, 1.25°WCloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WCloughton — 54.17°N, 0.25°WScalby — 54.30°N, 0.40°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WFort Union — 44.15°N, 108.87°WFort Union — 47.13°N, 107.52°WFort Union — 43.70°N, 104.70°WFort Union — 43.93°N, 108.65°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 109.00°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WLower Saltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WWasatch — 41.93°N, 107.99°WSteierdorf — 45.08°N, 21.85°ELongjiagou — 34.20°N, 105.10°ELongjiagou — 33.60°N, 104.80°ELongjiagou — 33.90°N, 106.50°EChayihuo — 46.80°N, 122.90°EMalugou — 43.50°N, 129.60°EUpper Talyndzhak Suite — 51.30°N, 132.60°EUpper Gurud Suite — 38.60°N, 67.40°EProtection — 49.00°N, 124.00°WTaynton Limestone — 51.80°N, 1.40°WZhiluo — 40.30°N, 110.00°EJingouling — 42.50°N, 129.00°EDabao — 41.60°N, 125.00°EDabao — 41.40°N, 124.00°EDaqiaode — 26.60°N, 101.80°ECoal Suite — 42.80°N, 41.70°EHanalri — 36.70°N, 128.10°EDegibadam Suite — 38.50°N, 68.60°E

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The named rock units Dryopteridaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 78 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 82 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dryopteridaceae and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

1,120 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 191 sites for Dryopteridaceae, 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

95 references

Each of the 260 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. 83 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 Dryopteridaceae

Credit
Franz Xaver
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dryopteridaceae 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Herter 1949