Ginkgo digitata

Ginkgo digitata is an extinct ginkgo species in the family Ginkgoaceae. It lived in Great Britain from the Aalenian to the Bathonian, in Queensland in the Callovian and in British Columbia in the Cenomanian.

Ginkgo digitata

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
GinkgoPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 143.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 8 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 8 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 8 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 8 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences174–171 Mya — about 1 occurrence171–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences161–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences170.9 Mya143.1 Mya176 Mya99 Mya

8 occurrences of Ginkgo digitata on record, most of them in the Middle 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

8 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

4 formations

Cloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WCloughton — 54.17°N, 0.25°WLower Saltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WCommotion — 54.42°N, 120.37°W

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The named rock units Ginkgo digitata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ginkgo digitata and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Ginkgo digitata and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

88 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Ginkgo digitata, 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

6 references

Each of the 8 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. 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 Ginkgo digitata

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ginkgo digitata 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
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 itGinkgo through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brongniart 1830)