Cycadaceae

Cycadaceae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 290 million years on record.

The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 105 occurrencesPermian — about 6 of 105 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 2 of 105 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 105 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 41 of 105 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 5 of 105 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 8 of 105 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 14 of 105 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 105 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 105 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 105 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 105 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 105 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 105 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 105 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 105 occurrences305–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–285 Mya — about 3 occurrences285–274 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences274–264 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences264–254 Mya — about 2 occurrences254–244 Mya — about 2 occurrences244–234 Mya — about 13 occurrences234–224 Mya — about 20 occurrences224–213 Mya — about 5 occurrences213–203 Mya — about 5 occurrences203–193 Mya — about 3 occurrences193–183 Mya — about 3 occurrences183–173 Mya — about 1 occurrence173–163 Mya — about 7 occurrences163–152 Mya — about 7 occurrences152–142 Mya — about 7 occurrences142–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–122 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–112 Mya — about 5 occurrences112–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–41 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences41–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences290.1 Mya11.7 ka305 Mya0 Mya

105 occurrences of Cycadaceae on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

105 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

47 formations

Santa Clara — 28.56°N, 109.34°WSanta Clara — 28.55°N, 109.35°WSanta Clara — 28.56°N, 110.20°WSanta Clara — 28.51°N, 110.19°WSanta Clara — 28.57°N, 109.66°WSanta Clara — 28.56°N, 110.13°WSanta Clara — 28.58°N, 109.63°WPautut — 70.25°N, 54.50°WTuckahoe — 37.35°N, 77.72°WCow Branch — 36.50°N, 80.50°WCow Branch — 36.54°N, 79.67°WDoswell — 37.78°N, 77.54°WSaltwick — 54.40°N, 1.00°WPekin — 35.50°N, 79.40°WGorno — 45.87°N, 10.10°ECiano — 3.87°S, 80.07°WWerfen — 46.50°N, 11.92°EWerfen — 46.61°N, 11.90°ERajmahal — 25.08°N, 87.74°EBhuj — 23.28°N, 69.36°EBhuj — 23.32°N, 69.77°EVale — 32.13°N, 99.75°WLusso Beds — 0.03°N, 29.62°EOtterdale — 37.37°N, 77.75°WTaynton Limestone — 51.80°N, 1.40°WWellington — 38.68°N, 97.30°WHuayacocotla — 21.20°N, 98.30°WFort Union — 41.51°N, 108.65°WWasatch — 42.34°N, 108.16°WShanqiutian-Shanjiachong — 28.20°N, 113.60°EYinzuishan — 29.40°N, 110.00°EXinshikou — 40.00°N, 116.00°EDaken — 25.50°N, 117.60°E

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The named rock units Cycadaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cycadaceae and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Cycadaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

1,045 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Cycadaceae, 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

55 references

Each of the 105 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. 43 further references are not listed. 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 Cycadaceae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cycadaceae 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. Persoon 1807