Sagenopteris elliptica

Sagenopteris elliptica

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 14 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 13 of 14 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 3 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 3 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 3 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143.1 Mya113.2 Mya156 Mya99 Mya

14 occurrences of Sagenopteris elliptica on record, most of them in the Early 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

14 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

2 formations

Kootenai — 47.48°N, 111.37°WMorrison — 47.00°N, 110.00°W

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The named rock units Sagenopteris elliptica 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.

Sagenopteris elliptica and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Sagenopteris elliptica and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

61 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Sagenopteris elliptica, 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

3 references

Each of the 14 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 Sagenopteris elliptica

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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Sagenopteris elliptica 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 itSagenopteris through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fontaine 1889)