Asplenium magnum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AspleniumPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
2 occurrences of Asplenium magnum 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Asplenium magnum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Asplenium magnum and its relatives
EoceneWhere Asplenium magnum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Aralia notata1 site
- Aralia serrulata1 site
- Arctostaphylos elliptica1 site
- Artocarpus quercoides1 site
- Asplenium erosum1 site
- Asplenium iddingsi1 site
- Asplenium remotidens1 site
- Averrhoites affinis1 site
- Betula iddingsi1 site
- Carpites pedunculatus1 site
- Carpolithes osseus1 site
- Castanea pulchella1 site
- Celastrus culveri1 site
- Celastrus ellipticus1 site
- Celastrus inaequalis1 site
- Credneria pachyphylla1 site
- Cyperacites angustior1 site
- Cyperacites giganteus1 site
- Diospyros haguei1 site
- Dombeya novimundi1 site
- Equisetum canaliculatum1 site
- Equisetum deciduum1 site
- Fagus antipofii1 site
- Ficus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Asplenium magnum, 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
2 references- Stratigraphy and paleobotany of the Golden Valley Formation (Early Tertiary) of western North Dakota1
- Fossil Flora of the Yellowstone National Park1
Each of the 2 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 Asplenium magnum
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAsplenium through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Knowlton 1899)