Watsoniocladus

No picture of Watsoniocladus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Watsoniocladus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 106.3 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 16 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 16 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 16 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 16 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 14 of 16 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous203–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–187 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences187–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 4 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 7 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 3 occurrences149.2 Mya113.2 Mya203 Mya104 Mya

16 occurrences of Watsoniocladus 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

16 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

3 formations

Patapsco — 37.30°N, 77.29°WPatapsco — 37.26°N, 77.37°WKurnub — 29.10°N, 33.60°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°E

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The named rock units Watsoniocladus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Watsoniocladus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

25 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Watsoniocladus, 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 16 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 content0

No picture of Watsoniocladus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Watsoniocladus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Watsoniocladus 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 itCheirolepidiaceae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Srinivasan 1995