Polypodiaceae

Polypodiaceae is a family of ferns. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016, the family includes around 65 genera and an estimated 1,650 species and is placed in the order Polypodiales, suborder Polypodiineae. A broader circumscription has also been used, in which the family includes other families kept separate in PPG I. Nearly all species are epiphytes, but some are terrestrial.

Polypodiaceae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 387 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 3 of 2013 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 397 of 2013 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 67 of 2013 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 7 of 2013 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 6 of 2013 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 157 of 2013 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 98 of 2013 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 50 of 2013 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 60 of 2013 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 84 of 2013 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 216 of 2013 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 205 of 2013 occurrencesEocene — about 452 of 2013 occurrencesOligocene — about 26 of 2013 occurrencesMiocene — about 56 of 2013 occurrencesPliocene — about 16 of 2013 occurrencesPleistocene — about 98 of 2013 occurrences401–388 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences388–375 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences375–361 Mya — about 1 occurrence361–348 Mya — about 11 occurrences348–334 Mya — about 7 occurrences334–321 Mya — about 15 occurrences321–308 Mya — about 148 occurrences308–294 Mya — about 222 occurrences294–281 Mya — about 18 occurrences281–268 Mya — about 10 occurrences268–254 Mya — about 25 occurrences254–241 Mya — about 17 occurrences241–227 Mya — about 33 occurrences227–214 Mya — about 56 occurrences214–201 Mya — about 76 occurrences201–187 Mya — about 49 occurrences187–174 Mya — about 49 occurrences174–161 Mya — about 49 occurrences161–147 Mya — about 43 occurrences147–134 Mya — about 23 occurrences134–120 Mya — about 17 occurrences120–107 Mya — about 40 occurrences107–94 Mya — about 61 occurrences94–80 Mya — about 21 occurrences80–67 Mya — about 134 occurrences67–54 Mya — about 254 occurrences54–40 Mya — about 167 occurrences40–27 Mya — about 273 occurrences27–13 Mya — about 42 occurrences13–0 Mya — about 152 occurrences387.95 Mya11.7 ka401 Mya0 Mya

2,013 occurrences of Polypodiaceae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

2,013 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

347 formations

Yaw — 23.25°N, 94.25°EYaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°EFort Union — 41.55°N, 109.26°WFort Union — 41.51°N, 108.65°WFort Union — 41.14°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 41.17°N, 108.91°WFort Union — 41.14°N, 109.06°WFort Union — 41.57°N, 108.58°WFort Union — 43.40°N, 105.30°WFort Union — 43.40°N, 106.00°WFort Union — 44.80°N, 106.00°WFort Union — 43.40°N, 105.10°WFort Union — 43.30°N, 105.00°WFort Union — 43.60°N, 105.10°WFort Union — 43.50°N, 104.90°WFort Union — 43.88°N, 108.52°WFort Union — 44.80°N, 106.95°WFort Union — 45.55°N, 103.97°WFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WFort Union — 46.48°N, 105.67°WFort Union — 44.71°N, 106.17°WFort Union — 44.83°N, 106.09°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 106.06°WFort Union — 46.60°N, 105.68°WFort Union — 45.59°N, 105.68°WFort Union — 45.55°N, 105.72°WFort Union — 45.53°N, 105.64°WCarbondale — 40.00°N, 88.00°WCarbondale — 39.00°N, 87.00°WSpoon — 40.00°N, 88.00°WWasatch — 41.16°N, 108.93°WWasatch — 41.69°N, 108.20°WWasatch — 41.93°N, 107.99°WWasatch — 39.53°N, 107.78°WWasatch — 44.63°N, 106.17°WWasatch — 44.71°N, 106.17°WLost Branch — 37.19°N, 95.42°WLost Branch — 37.83°N, 94.98°WMonte Chico — 51.59°S, 72.41°WMonte Chico — 51.18°S, 72.29°WHell Creek — 46.35°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 46.39°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 49.32°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WSeminole — 37.26°N, 93.86°WSeminole — 37.15°N, 95.47°WSeminole — 37.18°N, 95.42°WSeminole — 36.08°N, 95.05°WSeminole — 36.78°N, 95.69°WChorrillo — 50.50°S, 72.56°WCape Stewart — 70.50°N, 22.60°WPocono — 40.64°N, 78.40°WPocono — 40.50°N, 78.48°WPocono — 40.68°N, 76.18°WPocono — 41.03°N, 78.44°WPocono — 41.42°N, 78.73°WPocono — 40.87°N, 75.78°WPocono — 41.25°N, 78.65°WShelburn — 37.89°N, 87.71°WShelburn — 39.04°N, 87.28°WShelburn — 37.91°N, 88.80°WShelburn — 39.50°N, 90.04°WBathurst Island — 11.79°S, 130.23°EBathurst Island — 11.78°S, 130.35°ELefipán — 42.67°S, 69.83°WLefipán — 42.58°S, 69.98°WTurtel Mountain — 49.06°N, 100.56°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.28°S, 56.77°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.31°S, 56.88°WWild Cow — 35.00°N, 106.67°WSan Sebastian — 18.30°N, 66.88°WSan Sebastian — 18.37°N, 66.19°WBentiu — 9.35°N, 29.13°ELake Murray — 34.29°N, 96.97°WSaltwick — 54.40°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.37°N, 1.25°WSaltwick — 54.33°N, 0.50°WAreniscas de el Limbo — 4.90°N, 73.02°WDensuș-Ciula — 45.62°N, 22.78°E

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The named rock units Polypodiaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 323 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 644 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Polypodiaceae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Polypodiaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,168 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,253 sites for Polypodiaceae, and this reads 240 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

319 references

Each of the 2,013 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. 307 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 Polypodiaceae

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nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Polypodiaceae 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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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. (Presl and Presl 1822)