Anthrophyopsis

Anthrophyopsis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 201.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Permian — about 2 of 37 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 37 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 37 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 29 of 37 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 4 of 37 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 37 occurrences269–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266–262 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences262–259 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences259–256 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences256–253 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences250–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–243 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences243–240 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences240–237 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences237–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence234–230 Mya — about 1 occurrence230–227 Mya — about 1 occurrence227–224 Mya — about 3 occurrences224–221 Mya — about 3 occurrences221–218 Mya — about 3 occurrences218–214 Mya — about 3 occurrences214–211 Mya — about 3 occurrences211–208 Mya — about 3 occurrences208–205 Mya — about 3 occurrences205–202 Mya — about 4 occurrences202–198 Mya — about 2 occurrences198–195 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences195–192 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences189–186 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences186–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251.902 Mya201.4 Mya269 Mya173 Mya

37 occurrences of Anthrophyopsis on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

37 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

13 formations

Anyuan — 27.60°N, 113.80°EAnyuan — 28.50°N, 118.00°EAnyuan — 29.80°N, 118.50°EWenbinshan — 25.50°N, 117.60°EJiaoking — 27.30°N, 117.40°ELower Gring Suite — 38.50°N, 70.20°ELower Gring Suite — 38.20°N, 70.30°EMolteno — 29.50°S, 29.50°EHeiberg — 79.62°N, 84.83°WBanshiding — 43.50°N, 125.50°EZhijiachong — 28.20°N, 113.60°EYangmeilong — 26.10°N, 113.30°EBaoding — 26.90°N, 101.50°EHinjir — 20.95°N, 84.69°EKozirevskaya Suite — 54.90°N, 61.40°EAmisan — 36.53°N, 126.77°E

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The named rock units Anthrophyopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anthrophyopsis and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Anthrophyopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

167 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Anthrophyopsis, 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

21 references

Each of the 37 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. 9 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 Anthrophyopsis

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Anthrophyopsis 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 itCycadales through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nathorst 1878