Coniopteris simplex

No picture of Coniopteris simplex 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 Coniopteris simplex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 51 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 15 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 15 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous176–174 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 2 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 2 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–118 Mya — about 2 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 3 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 3 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence170.9 Mya119.57 Mya176 Mya112 Mya

15 occurrences of Coniopteris simplex 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

15 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

4 formations

Kootenai — 47.48°N, 111.37°WSaltwick — 54.50°N, 0.75°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.33°N, 0.50°WCloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WLower Saltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°W

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

Coniopteris simplex and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Coniopteris simplex and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

97 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Coniopteris simplex, 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

4 references

Each of the 15 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

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No picture of Coniopteris simplex 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 Coniopteris simplex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Coniopteris simplex 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 itConiopteris through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Harris 1961)