Neuropteris

Neuropteris is an extinct seed fern that existed in the Carboniferous period, known only from fossils.

Neuropteris

Bloopityboop · 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
MedullosaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 185 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 408 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 260 of 408 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 139 of 408 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 408 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 6 of 408 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 408 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 408 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 408 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 408 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 408 occurrences363–356 Mya — about 7 occurrences356–348 Mya — about 16 occurrences348–341 Mya — about 15 occurrences341–333 Mya — about 15 occurrences333–326 Mya — about 15 occurrences326–318 Mya — about 29 occurrences318–311 Mya — about 46 occurrences311–303 Mya — about 79 occurrences303–296 Mya — about 62 occurrences296–288 Mya — about 54 occurrences288–281 Mya — about 27 occurrences281–273 Mya — about 13 occurrences273–266 Mya — about 7 occurrences266–258 Mya — about 8 occurrences258–251 Mya — about 7 occurrences244–236 Mya — about 6 occurrences236–229 Mya — about 2 occurrences229–221 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–154 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences154–146 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences146–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346.7 Mya161.5 Mya363 Mya139 Mya

408 occurrences of Neuropteris on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

408 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

92 formations

Taiyuan — 39.90°N, 111.80°ETaiyuan — 37.50°N, 105.20°ETaiyuan — 38.20°N, 100.20°ETaiyuan — 41.80°N, 126.50°ETaiyuan — 35.50°N, 110.40°ETaiyuan — 37.50°N, 114.60°ETaiyuan — 40.00°N, 116.20°ETaiyuan — 34.70°N, 116.60°ETaiyuan — 39.70°N, 106.80°ETaiyuan — 38.80°N, 99.60°ETaiyuan — 41.20°N, 123.80°ETaiyuan — 41.60°N, 119.70°ETaiyuan — 38.80°N, 105.60°ETaiyuan — 38.20°N, 106.40°ETaiyuan — 36.80°N, 118.10°ETaiyuan — 39.40°N, 111.00°EPetersburg — 38.10°N, 87.18°WShanxi — 38.00°N, 114.00°EShanxi — 41.80°N, 126.50°EShanxi — 38.80°N, 105.60°EShanxi — 38.80°N, 99.60°EShanxi — 38.50°N, 102.20°EShanxi — 35.70°N, 106.60°EShanxi — 38.20°N, 106.40°EShanxi — 39.40°N, 111.00°EShanxi — 35.10°N, 117.20°ELawrence Shale — 38.00°N, 95.00°WLawrence Shale — 38.83°N, 95.38°WLawrence Shale — 38.95°N, 95.23°WLawrence Shale — 38.55°N, 95.43°WLawrence Shale — 38.77°N, 95.18°WWild Cow — 34.75°N, 106.25°WWild Cow — 34.95°N, 106.30°WManebacher — 50.80°N, 10.60°EBrazil — 39.13°N, 87.02°WShelburn — 39.28°N, 87.53°WMinto — 46.08°N, 66.08°WBoggy — 35.50°N, 95.49°WDrywood — 38.00°N, 93.00°WHeilgenwalder Schichten — 49.28°N, 6.80°EBreathitt — 37.08°N, 83.70°WGoldlauterer — 50.80°N, 10.60°EBanbidian — 39.90°N, 119.60°EMahoning — 40.70°N, 80.65°WSan Tirso — 43.30°N, 5.70°WCharleston Sandstone — 39.00°N, 87.00°WVandever Shale & Rockcastle Sandstone — 34.86°N, 85.43°WSupai — 34.20°N, 111.00°WWinfield — 39.82°N, 97.05°WGres de Bucaco — 40.40°N, 8.40°WOberhofer — 50.80°N, 10.60°EKizilli — 41.45°N, 31.82°E

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The named rock units Neuropteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 68 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 176 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neuropteris and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Neuropteris and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

647 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 207 sites for Neuropteris, 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

109 references

Each of the 408 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. 97 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 content3

Picture of Neuropteris

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

Laser scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Neuropteris sp. · iu:igws:0363

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itMedullosaceae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1828