Nilssoniopteris

No picture of Nilssoniopteris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nilssoniopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BennettitalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 107 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 129 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 12 of 129 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 28 of 129 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 81 of 129 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 6 of 129 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 129 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous244–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–235 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences235–230 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences230–226 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences226–221 Mya — about 2 occurrences221–217 Mya — about 2 occurrences217–212 Mya — about 2 occurrences212–208 Mya — about 2 occurrences208–203 Mya — about 2 occurrences203–199 Mya — about 4 occurrences199–194 Mya — about 5 occurrences194–189 Mya — about 3 occurrences189–185 Mya — about 3 occurrences185–180 Mya — about 6 occurrences180–176 Mya — about 6 occurrences176–171 Mya — about 16 occurrences171–167 Mya — about 33 occurrences167–162 Mya — about 30 occurrences162–158 Mya — about 5 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 1 occurrence153–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–139 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences139–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences121–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences227.3 Mya119.57 Mya244 Mya107 Mya

129 occurrences of Nilssoniopteris 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

129 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

38 formations

Saltwick — 54.40°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.50°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.37°N, 1.25°WSaltwick — 54.49°N, 1.11°WKokala Suite — 44.30°N, 51.80°EKokala Suite — 44.10°N, 52.20°EKokala Suite — 43.10°N, 54.90°ECloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WCloughton — 54.17°N, 0.25°WAngren Suite — 41.00°N, 70.20°EAngren Suite — 40.90°N, 71.00°EUpper Gurud Suite — 38.60°N, 67.40°ESteierdorf — 45.08°N, 21.85°EChinle — 35.20°N, 108.20°WChinle — 37.70°N, 110.40°WLower Saltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WScalby — 54.30°N, 0.40°WMine — 56.08°N, 12.90°EMine — 56.10°N, 12.85°ELinshan — 27.00°N, 116.00°ELinshan — 26.00°N, 115.50°EBagong — 31.10°N, 97.20°EBagong — 31.00°N, 98.30°EBhuj (plus Jhuran in part?) — 23.40°N, 69.50°EBoroldai and Kashkara Suites — 43.00°N, 70.00°ELower Sandstone-mudstone Suite — 48.20°N, 53.60°EUpper Tanasha Suite — 43.10°N, 54.10°EUpper Tanasha Suite — 43.30°N, 53.60°EShangonghuo — 43.50°N, 85.00°EYaojai — 36.50°N, 104.70°EMalugou — 43.50°N, 129.60°EBataowuan — 43.00°N, 89.10°ETumaingela — 33.00°N, 91.20°ELamaya — 28.90°N, 99.70°EValle Alto — 5.20°N, 75.60°WShale Suite — 42.30°N, 43.00°E

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The named rock units Nilssoniopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 51 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nilssoniopteris and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Nilssoniopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

406 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 83 sites for Nilssoniopteris, 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

45 references

Each of the 129 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. 33 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 content0

No picture of Nilssoniopteris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nilssoniopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nathorst 1909