Protophyllocladus

Protophyllocladus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 91 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 27 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 27 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 27 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 23 of 27 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 27 occurrences208–204 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences204–199 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences199–194 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences194–189 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences189–184 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences184–179 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences179–175 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–165 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences92–87 Mya — about 1 occurrence87–83 Mya — about 5 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 7 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 7 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174.7 Mya83.6 Mya208 Mya63 Mya

27 occurrences of Protophyllocladus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

27 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

11 formations

Eagle — 44.99°N, 108.87°WEagle — 44.98°N, 109.27°WComox — 49.75°N, 125.00°WMilk River — 49.17°N, 111.87°WMilk River — 49.08°N, 111.41°WExtension — 49.00°N, 124.00°WPautut — 70.25°N, 54.50°WFrontier — 42.83°N, 108.73°WCommotion — 54.42°N, 120.37°WDunvegan — 56.08°N, 120.17°WProtection — 49.00°N, 124.00°WBlack Creek — 33.85°N, 80.55°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°W

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The named rock units Protophyllocladus 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.

Protophyllocladus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Protophyllocladus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

188 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Protophyllocladus, 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

10 references

Each of the 27 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 Protophyllocladus

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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. Berry 1903