Cladophlebis virginiensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CladophlebisPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 42 million years on record.
The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 93.9 Mya.
20 occurrences of Cladophlebis virginiensis 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
20 occurrencesThese 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
11 formations
- Kootenai Formation3
- Morrison Formation2
- Dunvegan Formation2
- Tantalus Formation1
- Kootenay Formation1
- Commotion Formation1
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The named rock units Cladophlebis virginiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cladophlebis virginiensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Cladophlebis virginiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
119 taxa- Podozamites lanceolatus10 sites
- Nilsonia8 sites
- Coniopteris7 sites
- Coniopteris hymenophylloides7 sites
- Pityophyllum nordenskioeldi7 sites
- Pterophyllum7 sites
- Sphenopteris latiloba6 sites
- Baiera5 sites
- Czekanowskia5 sites
- Sagenopteris elliptica5 sites
- Sagenopteris williamsii5 sites
- Cladophlebis heterophylla4 sites
- Elatides curvifolia4 sites
- Ginkgo pluripartita4 sites
- Pagiophyllum4 sites
- Ptilophyllum4 sites
- Sphenopteris4 sites
- Sphenopteris mclearni4 sites
- Athrotaxites3 sites
- Ctenis3 sites
- Diettertia montanensis3 sites
- Ginko cf. huttonii3 sites
- Gleichenites3 sites
- Klukia canadensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Cladophlebis virginiensis, 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
9 references- Lower Cretaceous Floras of Western Canada7
- Conformable Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) to Early Cretaceous Strata, northern Bowser Basin, British Columbia: a sedimentological and paleontological model3
- Flora of the Early Cretaceous Kootenai Formation in Montana, Bryophytes and Tracheophytes Excluding Conifers3
- Upper Cretaceous floras of the Dunvegan, Bad Heart, and Milk River Formations of Western Canada2
- Preliminary report on the megafossil flora of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation1
- New discovery of Early Cretaceous fossil fishes from Jinhua, Zhejiang1
- Stratigraphy and Petrology of the Lower Cretaceous Blairmore and Mannville Groups, Alberta Foothills and Plains1
- Stratigraphy and economic geology of the Great Falls-Lewistown coal field central Montana1
- Lower Cretaceous Section, Belcourt Ridge, Northeastern British Columbia1
Each of the 20 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 Cladophlebis virginiensis
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- Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Cladophlebis virginiensis 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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What may have been alongside itCladophlebis through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fontaine 1889