Adiantites

Adiantites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 233 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 30 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 24 of 30 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 30 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 30 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 30 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 30 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 30 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 30 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 30 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 30 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous388–378 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences378–369 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences369–360 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences360–351 Mya — about 8 occurrences351–342 Mya — about 6 occurrences342–333 Mya — about 4 occurrences333–324 Mya — about 3 occurrences324–315 Mya — about 1 occurrence315–306 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences306–296 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences178–169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences169–160 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences160–151 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences151–142 Mya — about 1 occurrence133–123 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences123–114 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences358.86 Mya125.77 Mya388 Mya114 Mya

30 occurrences of Adiantites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

30 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

12 formations

Pocono — 40.64°N, 78.40°WPocono — 40.50°N, 78.48°WPocono — 40.68°N, 76.18°WPocono — 41.03°N, 78.44°WPocono — 41.42°N, 78.73°WPocono — 40.87°N, 75.78°WPocono — 41.25°N, 78.65°W"Weber" — 38.25°N, 106.30°WManning Canyon Shale — 40.28°N, 112.15°WCumberland — 45.67°N, 62.70°WMorrison — 47.00°N, 110.00°WCoon Hollow — 45.60°N, 116.50°WWoody Cove beds — 47.80°N, 59.40°WCheverie — 45.15°N, 64.19°WMyogok — 36.50°N, 129.40°EPettycur Volcanics — 56.05°N, 3.17°WSainte-Barbe Clays — 50.48°N, 3.65°EGund — 32.07°N, 78.42°E

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The named rock units Adiantites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Adiantites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Adiantites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

164 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Adiantites, 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

15 references

Each of the 30 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Adiantites

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Adiantites 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 itPolypodiaceae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goeppert 1836