Piazopteris

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 12 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 12 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 8 of 12 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 12 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrences239–236 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences236–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–203 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences203–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–197 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences197–193 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences193–190 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences190–187 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences187–184 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184–180 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences180–177 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences177–174 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences174–171 Mya — about 2 occurrences171–167 Mya — about 3 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–161 Mya — about 1 occurrence161–157 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences157–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences148–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174.7 Mya161.5 Mya239 Mya141 Mya

12 occurrences of Piazopteris 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

12 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

6 formations

Tecomazuchil — 17.80°N, 98.00°WTecomazuchil — 17.80°N, 98.10°WTecomazuchil — 18.20°N, 98.00°WTecomazuchil — 17.60°N, 98.00°WRosario — 17.80°N, 98.20°WHuayacocotla — 21.20°N, 98.30°WEl Plan — 14.50°N, 87.10°WZorrillo — 17.60°N, 97.80°WCycle — 30.60°N, 34.80°E

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The named rock units Piazopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Piazopteris and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

63 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Piazopteris, 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

7 references

Each of the 12 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 content0

No picture of Piazopteris was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

No 3D scan of Piazopteris 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itMatoniaceae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lorch 1969