Allantodiopsis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolypodiaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 34 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
46 occurrences of Allantodiopsis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
46 occurrences- Late Cretaceous11%
- Paleocene43%
- Eocene46%
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
- Wasatch Formation13
- Fort Union Formation11
- Denver Formation4
- Extension Formation · Nanaimo Group3
- Green River Formation2
- Laramie Formation1
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The named rock units Allantodiopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Allantodiopsis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Allantodiopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
209 taxa- Dicotyledoneae19 sites
- Alnus8 sites
- Monocotyledoneae8 sites
- Persites argutus8 sites
- Ampelopsis acerifolia7 sites
- Cladrastis7 sites
- Dombeya novimundi7 sites
- Equisetum7 sites
- Glyptostrobus europaeus7 sites
- Allophylus6 sites
- Ocotea6 sites
- Viburnum6 sites
- Cercidiphyllum5 sites
- Dicotylophyllum5 sites
- Dryophyllum5 sites
- Ficus planicostata5 sites
- Hypserpa5 sites
- Macaranga5 sites
- Pugetia longifolia5 sites
- Rhamnites5 sites
- Sloanea5 sites
- Woodwardia gravida5 sites
- Zingiberopsis isonervosa5 sites
- Alnus operia4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Allantodiopsis, 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
5 references- Late Paleocene-early Eocene climate changes in southwestern Wyoming: Paleobotanical analysis23
- Paleocene flora of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains13
- Paleoecological and Floristic Heterogeneity in the Plant-Fossil Record - An Analysis Based on the Eocene of Washington6
- Flora of the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group of Vancouver Island, British Columbia3
- Denver Museum of Nature & Science archival records of Kirk Johnson fieldwork in Cretaceous rocks of the Rocky Mountain region.1
Each of the 46 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 content1

Picture of Allantodiopsis
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Allantodiopsis 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 itPolypodiaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Knowlton and Maxon 1919