Rhacopteris

A picture published with the record for Rhacopteris. 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
PteridophytaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 34 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 28 of 34 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 34 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 34 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 34 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 34 occurrencesLate Triassic375–370 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences370–365 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences365–360 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences360–355 Mya — about 3 occurrences355–350 Mya — about 3 occurrences350–345 Mya — about 4 occurrences345–340 Mya — about 4 occurrences340–335 Mya — about 4 occurrences335–330 Mya — about 4 occurrences330–325 Mya — about 2 occurrences325–320 Mya — about 1 occurrence320–315 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences315–310 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences310–305 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences305–300 Mya — about 1 occurrence300–295 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences295–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–285 Mya — about 1 occurrence285–280 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences280–275 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences275–270 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences270–265 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences265–260 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences260–255 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences255–250 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences239–234 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences234–229 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences229–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358.86 Mya237 Mya375 Mya224 Mya

34 occurrences of Rhacopteris on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

34 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

14 formations

Gund — 32.07°N, 78.42°EGund — 33.93°N, 75.08°EStellarton — 45.67°N, 62.70°WKennebecasis — 45.32°N, 66.13°WGlencartholm Volcanic — 55.00°N, 2.00°WZewan — 33.78°N, 75.26°EZewan — 34.26°N, 75.09°EPocono — 41.82°N, 78.28°WPrice — 37.03°N, 80.77°WSearston Beds — 48.19°N, 58.82°WShanxi — 38.80°N, 99.60°EKupukuzhiman — 40.70°N, 79.00°EDahongshan — 41.60°N, 108.30°EAlbert — 45.86°N, 64.56°WFoel — 53.00°N, 3.00°WWynyard — 41.25°S, 145.54°E

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The named rock units Rhacopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhacopteris and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Rhacopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

118 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Rhacopteris, 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

15 references

Each of the 34 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. 3 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 Rhacopteris

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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What may have been alongside itPteridophyta through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schimper 1869