Archaeplastida

Archaeplastida or archaeplastids, sometimes also regarded as the kingdom Plantae sensu lato, are a large group of eukaryotes comprising the major clades Viridiplantae and Rhodophyta, as well as the minor basal division Glaucophyta. While the vast majority of archaeplastids are photosynthetic autotrophs, the group also includes heterotrophic lineages such as the predatorial (eukaryotrophic) flagellates Rhodelphidia, and probably also the microscopic picoplankton Picozoa, both may be sister to Rhodophyta and altogether forming the larger solid clade Rhodaria.

A picture published with the record for Archaeplastida. What it shows has not been checked.

Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives · Attribution · 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
EukaryotaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 1597 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1600 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1800 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Cambrian — about 18 of 262 occurrencesOrdovician — about 2 of 262 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 262 occurrencesDevonian — about 16 of 262 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 2 of 262 occurrencesPermian — about 4 of 262 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 7 of 262 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 262 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 262 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 262 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 262 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 262 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 262 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 40 of 262 occurrencesPaleocene — about 24 of 262 occurrencesEocene — about 16 of 262 occurrencesOligocene — about 17 of 262 occurrencesMiocene — about 60 of 262 occurrencesPliocene — about 22 of 262 occurrencesPleistocene — about 16 of 262 occurrences1836–1775 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1775–1714 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1714–1652 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1652–1591 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1591–1530 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1530–1469 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1469–1408 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1408–1346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1346–1285 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1285–1224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1224–1163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1163–1102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1102–1040 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1040–979 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences979–918 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences918–857 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences857–796 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences796–734 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences734–673 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences551–490 Mya — about 18 occurrences490–428 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–367 Mya — about 12 occurrences367–306 Mya — about 7 occurrences306–245 Mya — about 11 occurrences245–184 Mya — about 2 occurrences184–122 Mya — about 8 occurrences122–61 Mya — about 62 occurrences61–0 Mya — about 134 occurrences1600 Mya2.58 Mya1836 Mya0 Mya

262 occurrences of Archaeplastida on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

262 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

29 formations

Jagüel — 38.84°S, 67.88°WJagüel — 35.84°S, 69.67°WJagüel — 36.21°S, 69.46°WHidden Lake — 63.87°S, 57.99°WTokammane — 79.18°N, 17.50°ETokammane — 78.82°N, 17.87°ETokammane — 78.95°N, 18.33°EMonte León — 47.08°S, 66.39°WMonte León — 47.09°S, 66.01°WMonte León — 47.03°S, 66.80°WHongjingshao — 24.97°N, 102.82°ESpringhill — 52.77°S, 68.70°WNew Albany Shale — 38.48°N, 85.75°WEllis Bay — 49.50°N, 63.00°WKwataboahegan — 51.50°N, 81.00°WStooping River — 51.00°N, 81.50°WMonte Leon — 47.08°S, 66.39°WGaoyuzhuang — 40.15°N, 118.22°EGaoyuzhuang — 40.60°N, 118.57°EGümüşali — 37.89°N, 36.00°EAllen — 38.78°S, 67.93°WCerro Cazador — 51.18°S, 72.22°WLong Rapids — 51.00°N, 82.00°Wl'Armorique — 48.37°N, 4.37°WVikinghøgda — 78.00°N, 23.00°ESaharonim — 31.67°N, 34.83°EBlisworth Limestone — 53.50°N, 0.33°WKessyusa — 71.33°N, 123.97°ESanta Marta — 63.88°S, 57.96°WCodó — 4.52°S, 44.03°WPuerto Madryn — 42.57°S, 64.27°W

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The named rock units Archaeplastida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 160 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Archaeplastida and its relatives

Miocene

Where Archaeplastida and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

944 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 200 sites for Archaeplastida, 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

47 references

Each of the 262 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. 35 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

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Picture of Archaeplastida

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Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives
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No 3D scan of Archaeplastida 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.

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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