Cephalotaxopsis

Cephalotaxopsis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 46 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 46 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 46 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 46 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 12 of 46 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 19 of 46 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 14 of 46 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 46 occurrences240–234 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences234–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–187 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences187–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–169 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–152 Mya — about 3 occurrences152–146 Mya — about 4 occurrences146–140 Mya — about 2 occurrences140–134 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences134–128 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences128–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 5 occurrences110–104 Mya — about 8 occurrences104–98 Mya — about 9 occurrences98–92 Mya — about 8 occurrences92–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174.7 Mya85.7 Mya240 Mya63 Mya

46 occurrences of Cephalotaxopsis 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

46 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

19 formations

Krivorechenskaya — 64.48°N, 168.92°ECorwin — 68.85°N, 163.20°WCorwin — 69.50°N, 162.72°WCorwin — 69.50°N, 162.76°WDunvegan — 56.22°N, 120.12°WDunvegan — 56.08°N, 120.17°WDunvegan — 55.70°N, 121.63°WCretaceous — 44.65°N, 104.22°WHuizachal — 23.00°N, 98.50°WChangan — 43.50°N, 125.50°EFuxing — 42.30°N, 123.90°EWulin — 43.70°N, 127.30°ELaiyang — 37.00°N, 120.60°EShahuozi — 44.20°N, 126.00°EDamuoguaihuo — 49.10°N, 120.70°EGaohuo — 50.50°N, 123.70°EJiufengshan — 50.50°N, 123.70°EChengzhi — 45.90°N, 133.00°EMone — 38.90°N, 141.60°EChepa Suite — 57.00°N, 118.50°ENeryungrikan Suite — 57.00°N, 125.00°ETorok — 68.91°N, 163.07°WMilk River — 49.08°N, 113.52°W

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The named rock units Cephalotaxopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cephalotaxopsis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Cephalotaxopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

114 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Cephalotaxopsis, 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

12 references

Each of the 46 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 Cephalotaxopsis

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No 3D scan of Cephalotaxopsis 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fontaine 1889