Dichopteris
No picture of Dichopteris 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 Dichopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FilicalesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 29 million years on record.
The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya.
5 occurrences of Dichopteris on record, most of them in the Late 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
5 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.
Dichopteris and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Dichopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Brachyphyllum4 sites
- Gleichenites4 sites
- Pterophyllum4 sites
- Sphenopteris4 sites
- Araucarites3 sites
- Elatides curvifolia3 sites
- Elatocladus3 sites
- Hausmannia buchii3 sites
- Kylikipteris3 sites
- Nilsonia3 sites
- Phlebopteris3 sites
- Pseudoctenis eathiensis3 sites
- Sagenopteris3 sites
- Todites3 sites
- Williamsonia3 sites
- Aspidistes2 sites
- Asplenium2 sites
- Coniopteris2 sites
- Cycadopteris2 sites
- Czekanowskia2 sites
- Hausmannia dichotoma2 sites
- Masculostrobus zeilleri2 sites
- Matonidium goepperti2 sites
- Nilsonia orientalis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Dichopteris, 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
3 references- Review of the Kimmeridgian flora of Sutherland, Scotland with reference to the ecology and in situ pollen2
- The fossil flora of the Grey Limestones of Veneto, Northern Italy, and its relationships to the other European floras of similar age2
- The flora from the Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of Culgower, Sutherland, Scotland1
Each of the 5 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 Dichopteris 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 Dichopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dichopteris 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFilicales through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zigno 1864