Athrotaxopsis
No picture of Athrotaxopsis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Athrotaxopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TaxodieaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 43 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Athrotaxopsis on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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- Early Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Athrotaxopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Athrotaxopsis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Athrotaxopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Abietites longifolius1 site
- Araucarites aquiensis1 site
- Arthropoda1 site
- Brachyphyllum crassicaule1 site
- Coniferales1 site
- Dichotozamites cycadopsis1 site
- Dicotylophyllum1 site
- Dicotylophyllum ovatodecurrens1 site
- Equisetum1 site
- Equisetum lyellii1 site
- Kenella1 site
- Landonia calophylla1 site
- Nelumbites extenuinervis1 site
- Nelumbites minimus1 site
- Pabiania1 site
- Pinaceae1 site
- Platanaceae1 site
- Pseudofrenelopsis parceramosa1 site
- Sapindopsis1 site
- Sapindopsis minutifolia1 site
- Spermatophyta1 site
- Sphenolepis sternbergiana1 site
- Tracheophyta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Athrotaxopsis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- The Megaflora from the Quantico Locality (Upper Albian), Lower Cretaceous Potomac Group of Virginia1
- The Cretaceous formation of the Black Hills as as indicated by the fossil plants1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Athrotaxopsis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Athrotaxopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Athrotaxopsis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTaxodieae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fontaine 1889