Onoclea

Onoclea

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
OnocleaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 51.1 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 4 of 23 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 18 of 23 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 23 occurrencesEocene91–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 3 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83.6 Mya56 Mya90.6 Mya50.3 Mya

23 occurrences of Onoclea on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

23 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

8 formations

Fort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 49.00°N, 111.97°WFort Union — 47.32°N, 106.92°WFort Union — 41.32°N, 109.20°WFort Union — 48.92°N, 105.53°WFort Union — 41.55°N, 108.70°WFort Union — 41.37°N, 109.21°WFort Union — 47.90°N, 102.82°WRavenscrag — 49.51°N, 109.02°WGolden Valley — 47.00°N, 101.55°WGolden Valley — 46.97°N, 102.08°WTullock — 46.22°N, 104.42°WTullock — 47.10°N, 104.72°WMilk River — 49.08°N, 113.52°WProtection — 49.00°N, 124.00°WLaramie — 44.00°N, 110.00°WBlack Creek — 34.55°N, 80.13°W

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The named rock units Onoclea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Onoclea and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Onoclea and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

146 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Onoclea, 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

8 references

Each of the 23 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 Onoclea

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Onoclea 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.

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What may have been alongside itOnocleaceae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753