Rhaphidopteris

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 112 million years on record.

The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 152.21 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Permian — about 7 of 42 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 42 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 42 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 9 of 42 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 8 of 42 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 12 of 42 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 6 of 42 occurrencesLate Jurassic269–265 Mya — about 1 occurrence265–261 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences261–257 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences257–253 Mya — about 2 occurrences253–249 Mya — about 1 occurrence241–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–233 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences233–228 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences228–224 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences224–220 Mya — about 1 occurrence220–216 Mya — about 1 occurrence216–212 Mya — about 1 occurrence212–208 Mya — about 1 occurrence208–204 Mya — about 1 occurrence204–200 Mya — about 1 occurrence200–196 Mya — about 1 occurrence196–192 Mya — about 1 occurrence192–188 Mya — about 1 occurrence188–184 Mya — about 1 occurrence184–179 Mya — about 1 occurrence179–175 Mya — about 1 occurrence175–171 Mya — about 4 occurrences171–167 Mya — about 6 occurrences167–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–151 Mya — about 3 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 3 occurrences264.28 Mya152.21 Mya269 Mya147 Mya

42 occurrences of Rhaphidopteris 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

42 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

13 formations

Cape Stewart — 70.50°N, 22.60°WCloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WCloughton — 54.17°N, 0.25°WScalby — 54.30°N, 0.40°WBlackstone — 27.62°S, 152.75°ELower Saltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WHuizachal — 23.00°N, 98.50°WMine — 56.10°N, 12.85°EXinshikou — 40.00°N, 116.00°EVeslyanskaya Suite — 63.80°N, 51.10°ECheriyusskaya Suite — 62.20°N, 50.90°EShadrovskaya Suite — 71.30°N, 52.20°EMolteno — 29.63°S, 27.51°E

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The named rock units Rhaphidopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhaphidopteris and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

264 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Rhaphidopteris, 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

13 references

Each of the 42 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. 1 further reference is 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

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No picture of Rhaphidopteris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

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 itUmkomasiaceae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barale 1972