Alienopteris livingstonensis
No picture of Alienopteris livingstonensis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Alienopteris livingstonensis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AlienopterisPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 8.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 113.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Alienopteris livingstonensis 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
1 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
- Cerro Negro Formation · Byers Group1
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The named rock units Alienopteris livingstonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Alienopteris livingstonensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Alienopteris livingstonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Bryopsida1 site
- Cyatheaceae1 site
- Cyatheacidites annulatus1 site
- Cyatheales1 site
- Cycadales1 site
- Eocyathea remesaliae1 site
- Millerocaulis1 site
- Millerocaulis australis1 site
- Phyllopteroides1 site
- Ptisana1 site
- Sphenopteris1 site
- Taeniopteris1 site
- Yavanna chimaerica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Alienopteris livingstonensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Alienopteris livingstonensis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Alienopteris livingstonensis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Alienopteris livingstonensis 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 itAlienopteris through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vera 2009