Bennettitales

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

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
GymnospermaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 259 million years on record.

The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 3193 occurrencesPermian — about 23 of 3193 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 7 of 3193 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 41 of 3193 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 781 of 3193 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 524 of 3193 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 842 of 3193 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 626 of 3193 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 294 of 3193 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 34 of 3193 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 9 of 3193 occurrencesEocene — about 9 of 3193 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 3193 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 3193 occurrences309–300 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences300–290 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences290–280 Mya — about 5 occurrences280–271 Mya — about 3 occurrences271–261 Mya — about 2 occurrences261–252 Mya — about 12 occurrences252–242 Mya — about 14 occurrences242–233 Mya — about 176 occurrences233–223 Mya — about 236 occurrences223–213 Mya — about 148 occurrences213–204 Mya — about 178 occurrences204–194 Mya — about 263 occurrences194–185 Mya — about 152 occurrences185–175 Mya — about 178 occurrences175–166 Mya — about 667 occurrences166–156 Mya — about 342 occurrences156–146 Mya — about 363 occurrences146–137 Mya — about 149 occurrences137–127 Mya — about 52 occurrences127–118 Mya — about 74 occurrences118–108 Mya — about 87 occurrences108–98 Mya — about 44 occurrences98–89 Mya — about 16 occurrences89–79 Mya — about 6 occurrences79–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–60 Mya — about 7 occurrences60–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–41 Mya — about 6 occurrences41–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence293.52 Mya33.9 Mya309 Mya22 Mya

3,193 occurrences of Bennettitales on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

3,193 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

380 formations

Santa Clara — 28.60°N, 109.70°WSanta Clara — 28.57°N, 110.21°WSanta Clara — 28.51°N, 110.19°WSanta Clara — 28.56°N, 109.34°WSanta Clara — 28.55°N, 109.35°WSanta Clara — 28.50°N, 109.50°WSanta Clara — 28.57°N, 109.21°WSanta Clara — 28.56°N, 110.13°WSanta Clara — 28.58°N, 109.63°WSanta Clara — 28.50°N, 110.30°WSaltwick — 54.40°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.50°N, 0.75°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.50°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.37°N, 1.25°WSaltwick — 54.33°N, 0.50°WSaltwick — 54.49°N, 1.11°WRajmahal — 24.54°N, 87.57°ERajmahal — 25.21°N, 87.50°ERajmahal — 25.08°N, 87.74°ERajmahal — 25.14°N, 87.50°ERajmahal — 25.24°N, 87.71°ERajmahal — 25.03°N, 87.59°ERajmahal — 20.52°N, 85.63°ECape Stewart — 70.50°N, 22.60°WBhuj — 23.70°N, 70.85°EBhuj — 23.22°N, 69.74°EBhuj — 23.32°N, 69.77°EBhuj — 23.79°N, 68.85°EBhuj — 23.28°N, 69.36°EBhuj — 23.18°N, 69.38°EBhuj — 23.60°N, 69.00°EBhuj — 23.48°N, 69.27°EBhuj — 23.08°N, 69.60°EBhuj — 23.20°N, 69.56°EBhuj — 23.10°N, 69.43°EBhuj — 23.08°N, 69.32°EBhuj — 23.31°N, 69.32°EBhuj — 23.21°N, 70.08°EBhuj — 23.68°N, 68.87°ECloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WCloughton — 54.17°N, 0.25°WSteierdorf — 45.08°N, 21.85°ECretaceous — 44.65°N, 104.22°WCretaceous — 43.43°N, 103.67°WCretaceous — 44.43°N, 103.67°WCretaceous — 43.43°N, 103.47°WCretaceous — 44.15°N, 103.31°WCretaceous — 44.41°N, 103.51°WZorrillo — 17.60°N, 97.60°WZorrillo — 17.60°N, 97.80°WRosario — 17.80°N, 98.20°WJabalpur — 22.50°N, 78.50°EJabalpur — 23.11°N, 80.13°EJabalpur — 22.91°N, 78.58°EJabalpur — 22.61°N, 78.04°EJabalpur — 22.37°N, 77.61°EJabalpur — 22.96°N, 78.95°EJabalpur — 22.32°N, 77.47°EJabalpur — 23.77°N, 81.47°EKokala Suite — 44.30°N, 51.80°EKokala Suite — 44.10°N, 52.20°EKokala Suite — 43.10°N, 54.90°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.80°N, 37.60°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.60°N, 37.50°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.60°N, 37.40°EBhuj (plus Jhuran in part?) — 23.40°N, 69.50°ELower Saltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WWenbinshan — 25.50°N, 117.60°EBagong — 31.10°N, 97.20°EBagong — 30.80°N, 97.50°EBagong — 31.00°N, 98.30°ELower Gring Suite — 38.20°N, 70.30°ELower Gring Suite — 38.50°N, 70.20°EScalby — 54.30°N, 0.40°WScalby — 54.25°N, 0.33°WAnyuan — 27.60°N, 113.80°EAnyuan — 28.50°N, 118.00°EAnyuan — 29.80°N, 118.50°EAnyuan — 26.00°N, 115.40°EUpper Tashkutan Suite — 38.50°N, 67.90°EUpper Tashkutan Suite — 38.60°N, 67.40°EUpper Tashkutan Suite — 38.70°N, 69.30°EGangapur — 19.27°N, 79.43°EGangapur — 19.41°N, 79.18°EGangapur — 17.27°N, 81.01°EGollapalle — 17.16°N, 81.71°ECoal and shale Suite — 42.80°N, 41.80°E

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The named rock units Bennettitales has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 356 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,085 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bennettitales and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

996 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 672 sites for Bennettitales, and this reads 240 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

334 references

Each of the 3,193 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. 322 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Bennettitales

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bessey 1910