Xylopteris

No picture of Xylopteris 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 Xylopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CorystospermaceaePBDB
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 247 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 14 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 11 of 14 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 14 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrences250–245 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences245–240 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences240–235 Mya — about 2 occurrences235–230 Mya — about 2 occurrences230–225 Mya — about 2 occurrences225–219 Mya — about 1 occurrence219–214 Mya — about 1 occurrence214–209 Mya — about 1 occurrence209–204 Mya — about 1 occurrence204–199 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences164–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237 Mya161.5 Mya250 Mya98 Mya

14 occurrences of Xylopteris 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

14 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

8 formations

Paso Flores — 40.30°S, 70.70°WPaso Flores — 40.50°S, 70.50°WPotrerillos — 33.00°S, 69.10°WPotrerillos — 33.08°S, 69.11°WAgua de la Zorra — 32.45°S, 69.18°WSerie de Llantenis — 35.60°S, 69.50°WCacheuta — 33.00°S, 69.10°WGilf Kebir — 23.40°N, 25.70°ETiki — 23.23°N, 82.08°EMolteno — 29.63°S, 27.51°E

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The named rock units Xylopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Xylopteris and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

90 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Xylopteris, 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

10 references

Each of the 14 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 Xylopteris 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 Xylopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Xylopteris 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 itCorystospermaceae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frenguelli 1943