Thaumatopteris

Thaumatopteris

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 75 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 123 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 59 of 123 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 53 of 123 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 10 of 123 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 123 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 123 occurrences243–240 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences240–237 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences237–233 Mya — about 2 occurrences233–230 Mya — about 2 occurrences230–226 Mya — about 3 occurrences226–223 Mya — about 7 occurrences223–220 Mya — about 7 occurrences220–216 Mya — about 7 occurrences216–213 Mya — about 7 occurrences213–209 Mya — about 7 occurrences209–206 Mya — about 7 occurrences206–203 Mya — about 9 occurrences203–199 Mya — about 10 occurrences199–196 Mya — about 10 occurrences196–192 Mya — about 9 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 5 occurrences189–185 Mya — about 5 occurrences185–182 Mya — about 5 occurrences182–179 Mya — about 5 occurrences179–175 Mya — about 5 occurrences175–172 Mya — about 3 occurrences172–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–165 Mya — about 5 occurrences165–162 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences162–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237 Mya161.5 Mya243 Mya141 Mya

123 occurrences of Thaumatopteris on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

123 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

50 formations

Cape Stewart — 70.50°N, 22.60°WBagong — 31.10°N, 97.20°EBagong — 30.80°N, 97.50°EBagong — 31.00°N, 98.30°ESteierdorf — 45.08°N, 21.85°EMine — 56.08°N, 12.90°EDaqiaode — 26.60°N, 101.80°ETumaingela — 33.00°N, 91.20°ELamaya — 28.90°N, 99.70°ELamaya — 30.00°N, 100.20°ERavat Suite — 39.20°N, 68.50°EHuizachal — 23.00°N, 98.50°WOsta Arena — 43.70°S, 69.70°WPiedra Pintada — 40.10°S, 70.20°WRoca Blanca — 48.00°S, 68.60°WPaso Flores — 40.40°S, 70.60°WAnyuan — 27.60°N, 113.80°ELinshan — 28.40°N, 117.50°EMazhong — 28.90°N, 118.50°EDaxigou — 36.50°N, 104.00°EZaoshang — 28.20°N, 113.60°EHuaqiao — 28.60°N, 119.30°ELishan — 27.00°N, 118.40°EWenbinshan — 25.50°N, 117.60°EWuzao — 29.30°N, 120.10°EWanglongtan — 31.00°N, 112.20°EHongqi — 48.00°N, 122.80°E

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The named rock units Thaumatopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 50 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thaumatopteris and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Thaumatopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

311 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 96 sites for Thaumatopteris, 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

59 references

Each of the 123 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. 47 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Thaumatopteris

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Thaumatopteris 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.

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What may have been alongside itDipteridaceae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goeppert 1841