Schizaeaceae

Schizaeaceae is a family of ferns in the order Schizaeales. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016, it includes only two genera. Alternatively, two families kept separate in PPG I, Lygodiaceae and Anemiaceae, may be included in Schizaeaceae so that the family has four genera. In this approach, the Schizaeaceae of PPG I is treated as the subfamily Schizaeoideae.

Schizaeaceae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 323 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 1202 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 7 of 1202 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 1202 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 1202 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 1202 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 1202 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 1202 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 9 of 1202 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 43 of 1202 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 707 of 1202 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 250 of 1202 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 32 of 1202 occurrencesEocene — about 122 of 1202 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 1202 occurrencesMiocene — about 12 of 1202 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 1202 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 1202 occurrences366–354 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences354–342 Mya — about 1 occurrence342–329 Mya — about 1 occurrence329–317 Mya — about 1 occurrence317–305 Mya — about 2 occurrences305–293 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences293–281 Mya — about 1 occurrence281–268 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences268–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–244 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences244–232 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences232–220 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences220–207 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences207–195 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences195–183 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences183–171 Mya — about 3 occurrences171–159 Mya — about 15 occurrences159–146 Mya — about 28 occurrences146–134 Mya — about 30 occurrences134–122 Mya — about 80 occurrences122–110 Mya — about 409 occurrences110–98 Mya — about 264 occurrences98–85 Mya — about 96 occurrences85–73 Mya — about 24 occurrences73–61 Mya — about 87 occurrences61–49 Mya — about 32 occurrences49–37 Mya — about 69 occurrences37–24 Mya — about 29 occurrences24–12 Mya — about 7 occurrences12–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences323.4 Mya11.7 ka366 Mya0 Mya

1,202 occurrences of Schizaeaceae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

1,202 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

152 formations

Riachuelo — 10.65°S, 37.04°WAgua Doce — 3.69°S, 44.56°WAbu Gabra — 11.03°N, 27.74°EBathurst Island — 11.79°S, 130.23°EBathurst Island — 11.78°S, 130.35°EOcal — 2.62°N, 75.53°WMuribeca — 10.65°S, 37.04°WBentiu — 11.03°N, 27.74°EYaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°ECaballos — 2.62°N, 75.53°WQueimadas — 3.69°S, 44.56°WPreguicas — 3.69°S, 44.56°WKharita — 29.00°N, 29.00°EKharita — 29.86°N, 28.74°EKachaike — 49.06°S, 72.14°WKachaike — 48.82°S, 72.12°WKachaike — 49.00°S, 72.00°WKachaike — 48.85°S, 72.15°WKachaike — 48.85°S, 72.15°WAlamein — 29.00°N, 29.00°ETambo — 27.34°S, 135.72°ETambo — 29.13°S, 140.88°ELa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.75°WLa Colonia — 43.02°S, 67.66°WLa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WLa Colonia — 42.97°S, 67.54°WRunnymede — 37.37°S, 140.90°EBurg El-Arab — 30.99°N, 27.77°EBahariya — 30.99°N, 27.77°EBahariya — 29.00°N, 29.00°ESix Hills — 25.00°N, 28.50°ESix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.00°ESix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.25°EMonte Chico — 51.59°S, 72.41°WMonte Chico — 51.18°S, 72.29°WWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.35°WRio Mayer — 49.06°S, 72.14°WRio Mayer — 48.82°S, 72.12°WDensuș-Ciula — 45.62°N, 22.78°E

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The named rock units Schizaeaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 128 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 215 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Schizaeaceae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Schizaeaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,590 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 531 sites for Schizaeaceae, 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

148 references

Each of the 1,202 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. 136 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 Schizaeaceae

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Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Schizaeaceae 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. Kaulfuss