Gleichenites

Gleichenites

via iDigBio · CC0 · via iDigBio. 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
GleicheniaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 208 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 56 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 131 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 131 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 131 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 16 of 131 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 10 of 131 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 15 of 131 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 49 of 131 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 29 of 131 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 131 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 131 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 131 occurrences295–287 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences287–279 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences279–270 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences254–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–238 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences238–230 Mya — about 3 occurrences230–222 Mya — about 4 occurrences222–214 Mya — about 4 occurrences214–206 Mya — about 4 occurrences206–197 Mya — about 4 occurrences197–189 Mya — about 3 occurrences189–181 Mya — about 3 occurrences181–173 Mya — about 5 occurrences173–165 Mya — about 8 occurrences165–157 Mya — about 14 occurrences157–149 Mya — about 27 occurrences149–141 Mya — about 12 occurrences141–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–116 Mya — about 9 occurrences116–108 Mya — about 8 occurrences108–100 Mya — about 8 occurrences100–92 Mya — about 5 occurrences92–84 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences84–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–68 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences68–59 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences59–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences274.4 Mya66 Mya295 Mya51 Mya

131 occurrences of Gleichenites 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

131 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

56 formations

Krivorechenskaya — 64.48°N, 168.92°EChengzhi — 45.90°N, 133.00°ECape Stewart — 70.50°N, 22.60°WKachaike — 48.85°S, 72.15°WKachaike — 48.85°S, 72.15°WMulin — 45.90°N, 133.00°ETochikubo — 37.70°N, 140.90°EKuwajima — 36.17°N, 136.63°EUslika — 56.43°N, 125.75°WEagle — 44.96°N, 108.85°WLamaya — 28.90°N, 99.70°ELamaya — 30.00°N, 100.20°EBagong — 31.10°N, 97.20°EBagong — 30.80°N, 97.50°EValle Alto — 5.20°N, 75.60°WPariwar — 27.30°N, 70.70°EPariwar — 27.11°N, 70.58°EOginohama — 38.40°N, 141.50°ELower Sandstone-mudstone Suite — 48.20°N, 53.60°EKamenka Suite — 49.10°N, 37.30°EPunta del Barco — 48.66°S, 69.12°WSanta Juana — 37.10°S, 72.90°WSanta Juana — 37.20°S, 72.84°WDhrangadhra — 22.81°N, 70.88°EDhrangadhra — 22.58°N, 71.21°ETuckahoe — 37.35°N, 77.72°WByers — 62.60°S, 61.10°WCañadón Asfalto — 43.90°S, 69.00°WChacarilla — 20.20°S, 69.40°WGaojiping — 23.00°N, 115.00°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Gleichenites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 32 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gleichenites and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

671 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 94 sites for Gleichenites, 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

63 references

Each of the 131 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. 51 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 Gleichenites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gleichenites 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.

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

Keep going

What may have been alongside itGleicheniaceae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

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