Taxites planus
No picture of Taxites planus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Taxites planus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TaxitesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 61 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 161.5 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Taxites planus on record, most of them in the Late 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Taxites planus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Taxites planus and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Taxites planus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
145 taxa- Araucarites minutus3 sites
- Dictyozamites feistmantelii3 sites
- Harrisiophyllum indicum3 sites
- Morrisia mcclellandi3 sites
- Otozamites bengalensis3 sites
- Ptilophyllum acutifolium3 sites
- Ptilophyllum cutchense3 sites
- Allocladus bansaensis2 sites
- Anomozamites amarjolense2 sites
- Araucarites macropterus2 sites
- Brachyphyllum expansum2 sites
- Conites sessilis2 sites
- Dicroidium2 sites
- Ginkgo2 sites
- Ginkgoites crassipes2 sites
- Otozamites vemavaramensis2 sites
- Pachypteris indica2 sites
- Pterophyllum2 sites
- Pterophyllum footeanum2 sites
- Ptilophyllum rarinervis2 sites
- Sphenopteris2 sites
- Taeniopteris spatulata2 sites
- Todites indicus2 sites
- Torreyites constricta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Taxites planus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Taxites planus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Taxites planus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Taxites planus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTaxites through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Feistmantel 1879