Matonia

Matonia is a genus of fern, named for English botanist William George Maton. It is native to Thailand, Malesia and New Guinea.

Matonia

by Jiang-Ping Shu Hao Wang,Hui Shen, Rui-Jiang Wang,Qiang Fu,Yong-Dong Wang,Yuan-Nian Jiao and Yue-Hong Yan · CC BY 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
MatoniaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 11 of 14 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 14 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 14 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 2 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 2 occurrences197–194 Mya — about 2 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 1 occurrence192–190 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences182–180 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences180–178 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences178–176 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences192.9 Mya161.5 Mya203 Mya142 Mya

14 occurrences of Matonia on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

14 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

3 formations

Steierdorf — 45.08°N, 21.85°ESaltwick — 54.33°N, 0.50°WCloughton — 54.17°N, 0.25°W

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The named rock units Matonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Matonia and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Matonia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

110 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Matonia, 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

3 references

Each of the 14 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Matonia

Credit
by Jiang-Ping Shu Hao Wang,Hui Shen, Rui-Jiang Wang,Qiang Fu,Yong-Dong Wang,Yuan-Nian Jiao and Yue-Hong Yan
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Matonia 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 itMatoniaceae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brown