Elatocladus

Elatocladus is an extinct form genus of Mesozoic sterile conifer leaves, used for shoots with the morphology of "elongated, dorsiventrally flattened leaves with a single vein; divergent from stem". Conifers with leaves of Elatocladus morphology are of uncertain taxonomic position within conifers.

Elatocladus

Gyik Toma (Tommy the paleobear) from Romania · CC BY 2.0 · 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
PodocarpaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 178 million years on record.

The record covers at least 250.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 66 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 427 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 4 of 427 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 427 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 56 of 427 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 52 of 427 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 108 of 427 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 126 of 427 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 56 of 427 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 23 of 427 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 427 occurrences256–249 Mya — about 3 occurrences249–243 Mya — about 1 occurrence243–236 Mya — about 5 occurrences236–230 Mya — about 27 occurrences230–223 Mya — about 13 occurrences223–217 Mya — about 4 occurrences217–211 Mya — about 4 occurrences211–204 Mya — about 4 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 11 occurrences198–191 Mya — about 12 occurrences191–185 Mya — about 10 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 12 occurrences178–172 Mya — about 27 occurrences172–165 Mya — about 63 occurrences165–159 Mya — about 41 occurrences159–153 Mya — about 43 occurrences153–146 Mya — about 47 occurrences146–140 Mya — about 24 occurrences140–133 Mya — about 7 occurrences133–127 Mya — about 7 occurrences127–120 Mya — about 8 occurrences120–114 Mya — about 8 occurrences114–107 Mya — about 12 occurrences107–101 Mya — about 10 occurrences101–95 Mya — about 8 occurrences95–88 Mya — about 3 occurrences88–82 Mya — about 5 occurrences82–75 Mya — about 3 occurrences75–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences250.8 Mya72.2 Mya256 Mya62 Mya

427 occurrences of Elatocladus on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

427 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

147 formations

Santa Clara — 28.57°N, 110.21°WSanta Clara — 28.51°N, 110.19°WSanta Clara — 28.56°N, 109.34°WSanta Clara — 28.58°N, 109.67°WSanta Clara — 28.55°N, 109.35°WPautut — 70.25°N, 54.50°WGangapur — 19.27°N, 79.43°EGangapur — 19.41°N, 79.18°ECloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WCloughton — 54.17°N, 0.25°WJabalpur — 22.50°N, 78.50°EJabalpur — 23.11°N, 80.13°EJabalpur — 23.18°N, 79.95°ESaltwick — 54.40°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.33°N, 0.50°WBhuj — 23.48°N, 69.27°EBhuj — 23.18°N, 69.38°EBhuj — 23.08°N, 69.32°EBhuj — 23.28°N, 69.36°EBhuj — 23.32°N, 69.77°EBhuj — 23.10°N, 69.43°ENaizhishan — 43.60°N, 127.20°ENaizhishan — 43.70°N, 127.30°EChengzhi — 45.90°N, 133.00°EPariwar — 27.30°N, 70.70°EPariwar — 27.11°N, 70.58°EKrivorechenskaya — 64.48°N, 168.92°ERajmahal — 25.14°N, 87.50°ERajmahal — 25.08°N, 87.74°ERajmahal — 25.24°N, 87.71°EChijingqiao — 39.90°N, 97.50°EChijingqiao — 39.90°N, 97.70°EChijingqiao — 39.50°N, 95.00°EChijingqiao — 38.00°N, 100.00°EFuxing — 42.00°N, 121.50°EFuxing — 42.30°N, 123.90°EFuxing — 42.30°N, 119.00°EMulin — 45.90°N, 133.00°EMulin — 46.60°N, 131.00°EXishanyao — 45.60°N, 85.00°EXishanyao — 44.00°N, 87.20°EXishanyao — 46.00°N, 83.00°EXishanyao — 42.60°N, 93.20°EDabao — 41.60°N, 125.00°EDabao — 41.40°N, 124.00°EBhuj (plus Jhuran in part?) — 23.40°N, 69.50°ECommotion — 54.42°N, 120.37°WLower Saltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSteierdorf — 45.08°N, 21.85°EYanan — 40.30°N, 110.00°EYanan — 35.00°N, 106.90°EShahuozi — 44.20°N, 126.00°EShitouhezhi — 47.40°N, 130.20°E

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The named rock units Elatocladus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 123 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 98 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elatocladus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Elatocladus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

466 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 288 sites for Elatocladus, 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

129 references

Each of the 427 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. 117 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 Elatocladus

Credit
Gyik Toma (Tommy the paleobear) from Romania
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Elatocladus 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

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 itPodocarpaceae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Halle 1913