Acrostichopteris

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 86 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 22 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 22 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 6 of 22 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 22 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 22 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 22 occurrences240–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–229 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences229–223 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences223–217 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences217–211 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences211–205 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences175–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–140 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences140–134 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences134–128 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences128–122 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences122–116 Mya — about 5 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 4 occurrences110–104 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences104–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205.7 Mya119.57 Mya240 Mya63 Mya

22 occurrences of Acrostichopteris 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

22 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

Kootenai — 47.48°N, 111.37°WCretaceous — 44.65°N, 104.22°WUtano — 34.20°N, 131.30°EOginohama — 38.40°N, 141.50°EBantou — 27.80°N, 118.00°EHuolanghuo — 45.00°N, 121.00°ETochikubo — 37.70°N, 140.90°EGrès et argiles supérieurs — 39.78°N, 9.23°W

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The named rock units Acrostichopteris 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.

Acrostichopteris and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

115 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Acrostichopteris, 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

9 references

Each of the 22 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Acrostichopteris 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 itSchizaeaceae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fontaine 1889