Cycadopites punctatus

No picture of Cycadopites punctatus 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 Cycadopites punctatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 120 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences202–198 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences198–193 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences193–188 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences192.9 Mya72.2 Mya202 Mya63 Mya

2 occurrences of Cycadopites punctatus on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

2 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

1 formation

Paso del Sapo — 42.67°S, 70.01°W

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The named rock units Cycadopites punctatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cycadopites punctatus and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Cycadopites punctatus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cycadopites punctatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 content0

No picture of Cycadopites punctatus 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 Cycadopites punctatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cycadopites punctatus 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 itCycadopites through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Volkheimer 1968