Angiopteris

Angiopteris is a genus of huge evergreen ferns from the family Marattiaceae, found throughout the paleotropics from Madagascar to the South Pacific islands.

Angiopteris

丘崈 · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 203 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 2 of 14 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 14 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 14 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 14 occurrences232–224 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences216–209 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences209–201 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences178–170 Mya — about 3 occurrences170–162 Mya — about 3 occurrences162–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.7–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences205.7 Mya2.58 Mya232 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Angiopteris on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

2 formations

Saltwick — 54.40°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.37°N, 1.25°WDaqiaode — 26.60°N, 101.80°E

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The named rock units Angiopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Angiopteris and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Angiopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

147 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Angiopteris, 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

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 content1

Picture of Angiopteris

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No 3D scan of Angiopteris 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMarattiaceae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hoffmann 1796