Phlebopteris

Phlebopteris is an extinct genus of Mesozoic fern belonging to the family Matoniaceae.

Phlebopteris

Johanna H.A. Van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, Christian Pott, Stefan Schmeißner, Günter Dütsch, Evelyn Kustatscher · 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 128 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 286 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 286 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 7 of 286 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 51 of 286 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 109 of 286 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 86 of 286 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 21 of 286 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 14 of 286 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 286 occurrences255–250 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences250–244 Mya — about 1 occurrence244–239 Mya — about 3 occurrences239–234 Mya — about 8 occurrences234–229 Mya — about 10 occurrences229–223 Mya — about 7 occurrences223–218 Mya — about 5 occurrences218–213 Mya — about 5 occurrences213–208 Mya — about 5 occurrences208–202 Mya — about 9 occurrences202–197 Mya — about 23 occurrences197–192 Mya — about 23 occurrences192–187 Mya — about 18 occurrences187–181 Mya — about 20 occurrences181–176 Mya — about 21 occurrences176–171 Mya — about 39 occurrences171–166 Mya — about 44 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 9 occurrences160–155 Mya — about 3 occurrences155–150 Mya — about 12 occurrences150–145 Mya — about 4 occurrences145–139 Mya — about 2 occurrences139–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 2 occurrences129–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–118 Mya — about 2 occurrences118–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–108 Mya — about 2 occurrences108–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences241.464 Mya113.2 Mya255 Mya97 Mya

286 occurrences of Phlebopteris on record, most of them in the Early 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

286 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

106 formations

Bearreraig Sandstone — 57.50°N, 6.13°WSanta Clara — 28.56°N, 110.20°WSanta Clara — 28.58°N, 109.66°WSanta Clara — 28.56°N, 109.34°WSanta Clara — 28.55°N, 109.35°WSteierdorf — 45.08°N, 21.85°ESaltwick — 54.40°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.50°N, 0.75°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.33°N, 0.50°WCape Stewart — 70.50°N, 22.60°WCloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WCloughton — 54.17°N, 0.25°WMine — 56.08°N, 12.90°EGilf Kebir — 23.40°N, 25.70°EBansa — 23.76°N, 81.46°EBansa — 23.82°N, 81.88°EBansa — 23.69°N, 80.77°EWenbinshan — 25.50°N, 117.60°ESandzhar Suite — 39.20°N, 68.60°ESandzhar Suite — 38.50°N, 68.60°EUpper Katynadyr Suite — 51.20°N, 58.60°ELower Gurud Suite — 37.70°N, 66.40°ECalcaires à Stipites — 44.18°N, 3.22°EChinle — 35.20°N, 108.20°WChinle — 37.70°N, 110.40°WLower Saltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WPekin — 35.50°N, 79.40°WDahanitor — 35.30°N, 68.00°ECoal Measures — 52.00°N, 28.60°EFuxian — 39.10°N, 111.00°EFuxian — 36.00°N, 109.30°EHongqi — 42.80°N, 126.40°EHongqi — 48.00°N, 122.80°EFanjiatang — 32.10°N, 118.80°EBagong — 31.10°N, 97.20°EBagong — 31.00°N, 98.30°EPariwar — 27.30°N, 70.70°EPariwar — 27.11°N, 70.58°E

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The named rock units Phlebopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 82 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 88 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phlebopteris and its relatives

Early Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

662 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 211 sites for Phlebopteris, 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

115 references

Each of the 286 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. 103 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Phlebopteris

Credit
Johanna H.A. Van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, Christian Pott, Stefan Schmeißner, Günter Dütsch, Evelyn Kustatscher
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Phlebopteris was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Brongniart 1836