Onychiopsis

A picture published with the record for Onychiopsis. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
PolypodiaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 87 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 87 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 87 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 51 of 87 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 28 of 87 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 87 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 87 occurrences204–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–195 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences195–190 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences190–185 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences181–176 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences176–171 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences171–167 Mya — about 1 occurrence167–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–157 Mya — about 12 occurrences157–152 Mya — about 13 occurrences152–148 Mya — about 13 occurrences148–143 Mya — about 14 occurrences143–138 Mya — about 4 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 3 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 3 occurrences129–124 Mya — about 3 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 4 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 3 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 3 occurrences106–101 Mya — about 3 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–91 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences87–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161.5 Mya100.5 Mya204 Mya63 Mya

87 occurrences of Onychiopsis 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

87 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

48 formations

Cretaceous — 44.65°N, 104.22°WBansa — 23.69°N, 80.77°EBansa — 23.76°N, 81.46°EBansa — 23.82°N, 81.88°EKirkwood — 33.50°S, 25.50°EKirkwood — 34.00°S, 25.00°EChijingqiao — 39.90°N, 97.50°EChijingqiao — 39.90°N, 97.70°EChijingqiao — 39.50°N, 95.00°EMulin — 45.90°N, 133.00°EMulin — 46.60°N, 131.00°EGaojiping — 23.00°N, 115.00°EGaojiping — 23.40°N, 115.90°EFuxing — 42.30°N, 123.90°EFuxing — 42.30°N, 119.00°EBantou — 27.80°N, 118.00°EBantou — 26.00°N, 117.40°EYantang — 29.90°N, 118.50°EJinggangshan — 42.30°N, 119.00°EJinggangshan — 42.10°N, 120.00°EQuanshuicheng — 43.20°N, 129.80°EShitouhezhi — 47.40°N, 130.20°EChengzhi — 45.90°N, 133.00°ENanyuan — 23.70°N, 117.20°EJabalpur — 22.50°N, 78.50°EJabalpur — 23.11°N, 80.13°EOzhogino Suite — 66.40°N, 149.50°EOzhogino Suite — 66.10°N, 148.90°EKootenay — 49.50°N, 115.00°WPurlawaugh — 32.17°S, 149.70°EJuifengshan — 51.10°N, 127.50°EAnming — 42.90°N, 125.00°EChangan — 43.50°N, 125.50°EYiming — 49.00°N, 119.50°ENaizhishan — 43.60°N, 127.20°ELaiyang — 37.00°N, 120.60°E

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The named rock units Onychiopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Onychiopsis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

434 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 69 sites for Onychiopsis, 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

41 references

Each of the 87 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. 29 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 Onychiopsis

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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. Yokoyama 1895