Taeniopteris

Taeniopteris is an extinct form genus of Mesozoic vascular plant leaves, perhaps representing those of cycads, bennettitaleans, or marattialean ferns. The form genus is almost certainly a polyphyletic category for unfertile leaves of a certain shape ("taeniopterids") which cannot be assigned to specific groups due to a lack of information on cuticle or spore structures. The leaves are simple, with a strong central vein (rhachis) and an unbroken margin. The central vein leads to nearly perpendicular lateral veins, which may be slightly divided or undivided. The shape of the leaf is variable, but often elongated and smooth-edged. "Taeniopterid" leaves with bennettitalean-type cuticle are placed in the form genus Nilssoniopteris, while those with cycad-type cuticle are placed within Nilssonia and related genera. Some fertile "taeniopterids" preserve spore packages, and can be assigned to marattialean ferns.

Taeniopteris

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 204 million years on record.

The record covers at least 304.8 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 892 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 892 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 892 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 892 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 14 of 892 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 301 of 892 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 21 of 892 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 27 of 892 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 232 of 892 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 85 of 892 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 94 of 892 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 81 of 892 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 35 of 892 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 892 occurrences548–532 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences532–517 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences517–501 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences501–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–470 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences470–454 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences454–439 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences439–423 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423–408 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences408–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences392–377 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences377–361 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences361–345 Mya — about 1 occurrence345–330 Mya — about 1 occurrence330–314 Mya — about 2 occurrences314–299 Mya — about 10 occurrences299–283 Mya — about 102 occurrences283–268 Mya — about 80 occurrences268–252 Mya — about 118 occurrences252–236 Mya — about 53 occurrences236–221 Mya — about 110 occurrences221–205 Mya — about 85 occurrences205–190 Mya — about 74 occurrences190–174 Mya — about 48 occurrences174–159 Mya — about 102 occurrences159–143 Mya — about 69 occurrences143–128 Mya — about 15 occurrences128–112 Mya — about 14 occurrences112–96 Mya — about 7 occurrences96–81 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences304.8 Mya100.5 Mya548 Mya81 Mya

892 occurrences of Taeniopteris on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

892 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

295 formations

Shanxi — 34.30°N, 116.90°EShanxi — 37.80°N, 112.20°EShanxi — 39.60°N, 111.00°EShanxi — 38.00°N, 114.00°EShanxi — 41.80°N, 126.50°EShanxi — 35.20°N, 109.90°EShanxi — 34.20°N, 113.50°EShanxi — 34.20°N, 117.20°EShanxi — 38.80°N, 105.60°EShanxi — 41.20°N, 123.80°EShanxi — 38.80°N, 99.60°EShanxi — 38.50°N, 102.20°EShanxi — 35.70°N, 106.60°EShanxi — 38.20°N, 106.40°EShanxi — 36.80°N, 118.10°EShanxi — 39.40°N, 111.00°EShanxi — 35.10°N, 117.20°EMolteno — 29.50°S, 29.50°EMolteno — 30.50°S, 29.00°EMolteno — 28.57°S, 29.05°EMolteno — 31.10°S, 26.50°EMolteno — 31.50°S, 28.00°EMolteno — 30.80°S, 26.88°EMolteno — 30.53°S, 26.90°EMolteno — 30.00°S, 27.00°EMolteno — 31.47°S, 26.43°EMolteno — 30.90°S, 26.72°EMolteno — 31.50°S, 27.92°EMolteno — 31.48°S, 26.47°EMolteno — 31.47°S, 26.83°EMolteno — 31.57°S, 26.22°EMolteno — 31.17°S, 28.43°EMolteno — 30.68°S, 28.52°EMolteno — 31.05°S, 26.80°EMolteno — 31.57°S, 26.27°EMolteno — 30.68°S, 26.95°ESanta Clara — 28.57°N, 110.21°WSanta Clara — 28.51°N, 110.19°WSanta Clara — 28.57°N, 109.75°WSanta Clara — 28.55°N, 109.35°WSanta Clara — 28.57°N, 109.21°WSanta Clara — 28.56°N, 110.13°WRajmahal — 25.14°N, 87.50°ERajmahal — 25.03°N, 87.59°ERajmahal — 25.21°N, 87.50°ERajmahal — 25.08°N, 87.74°ERajmahal — 25.24°N, 87.71°ERajmahal — 24.54°N, 87.57°ERajmahal — 20.52°N, 85.63°EBhuj — 23.28°N, 69.36°EBhuj — 23.31°N, 69.32°EBhuj — 23.48°N, 69.27°EBhuj — 23.43°N, 69.13°EBhuj — 23.21°N, 70.08°EBhuj — 23.68°N, 68.87°EBhuj — 23.32°N, 69.77°ELa Ternera — 27.12°S, 69.80°WLa Ternera — 27.15°S, 69.72°WLongtan — 30.80°N, 120.20°ELongtan — 30.80°N, 118.70°ELongtan — 30.20°N, 114.90°ELongtan — 27.00°N, 113.30°ELongtan — 24.70°N, 110.60°ELongtan — 31.30°N, 120.60°ELongtan — 26.50°N, 105.58°ERintoul Creek — 38.12°S, 146.50°EXinshikou — 40.00°N, 116.00°ETaiyuan — 37.50°N, 105.20°ETaiyuan — 34.70°N, 116.60°ETaiyuan — 38.80°N, 99.60°ETaiyuan — 41.60°N, 119.70°ETaiyuan — 38.80°N, 105.60°EWenbinshan — 25.50°N, 117.60°EUpper Tashkutan Suite — 38.50°N, 67.90°EUpper Tashkutan Suite — 38.60°N, 67.40°EUpper Tashkutan Suite — 38.70°N, 69.30°EWulinshan — 29.80°N, 119.70°EWulinshan — 28.70°N, 118.60°EWulinshan — 28.30°N, 117.70°ETongzhiyan — 25.10°N, 113.60°ETongzhiyan — 23.40°N, 113.20°ETongzhiyan — 22.20°N, 112.90°ETongzhiyan — 25.20°N, 117.10°EPariwar — 27.30°N, 70.70°EPariwar — 27.11°N, 70.58°EBlackstone — 27.62°S, 152.75°EHermit Shale — 36.07°N, 112.13°WHermit Shale — 36.00°N, 112.00°WDamiaozhuang — 39.60°N, 118.30°ELamaya — 28.90°N, 99.70°ELamaya — 30.00°N, 100.20°EAthgarh — 20.50°N, 85.80°EAthgarh — 20.51°N, 85.74°EGangapur — 19.27°N, 79.43°EGangapur — 19.41°N, 79.18°EBoroldai Suite — 43.00°N, 70.00°EKokala Suite — 44.30°N, 51.80°EKokala Suite — 44.10°N, 52.20°EKokala Suite — 43.10°N, 54.90°EDzharsu Suite — 44.20°N, 52.50°EDzharsu Suite — 44.40°N, 51.30°EDzharsu Suite — 43.60°N, 53.60°EDzharsu Suite — 44.20°N, 51.90°E

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The named rock units Taeniopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 271 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 323 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Taeniopteris and its relatives

Permian

Where Taeniopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

630 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 621 sites for Taeniopteris, 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

235 references

Each of the 892 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. 223 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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Picture of Taeniopteris

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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Brongniart 1828