Clathropteris platyphylla
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClathropterisPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 205.7 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Clathropteris platyphylla on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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.
Clathropteris platyphylla and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Clathropteris platyphylla and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Equisetum muensteri2 sites
- Taeniopteris2 sites
- Taeniopteris vittata2 sites
- Arundites dubius1 site
- Arundites priscus1 site
- Calamites1 site
- Camptopteris1 site
- Cyatheites1 site
- Cycadites1 site
- Cyclopteris1 site
- Danaeopsis1 site
- Dictyophyllum1 site
- Equisetum1 site
- Laccopteris1 site
- Lepidopteris1 site
- Nilsonia1 site
- Odontopteris1 site
- Otozamites latior1 site
- Pterophyllum1 site
- Ptilozamites1 site
- Taeniopteris stenoneura1 site
- Thuites1 site
- UNKNOWN1 site
- Weltrichia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Clathropteris platyphylla, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 content1
Picture of Clathropteris platyphylla
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Clathropteris platyphylla was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itClathropteris through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Göppert 1846)