Ginkgoales

Ginkgoales are a gymnosperm order containing only one extant species: Ginkgo biloba, the ginkgo tree. The order has a long fossil record extending back to the Early Permian around 300 million years ago from fossils found worldwide. The order was a common component of Permian and Triassic flora before the super dominance of conifers.

Ginkgoales

Peter R. Crane, Pollyanna von Knorring · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 287 million years on record.

The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 774 ka.

Devonian — about 0 of 1670 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 1670 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 74 of 1670 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 16 of 1670 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 27 of 1670 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 267 of 1670 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 382 of 1670 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 499 of 1670 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 229 of 1670 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 94 of 1670 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 31 of 1670 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 21 of 1670 occurrencesEocene — about 19 of 1670 occurrencesOligocene — about 3 of 1670 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 1670 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 1670 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 1670 occurrences366–354 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences354–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–305 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences305–293 Mya — about 5 occurrences293–281 Mya — about 12 occurrences281–268 Mya — about 7 occurrences268–256 Mya — about 32 occurrences256–244 Mya — about 42 occurrences244–232 Mya — about 62 occurrences232–220 Mya — about 87 occurrences220–207 Mya — about 77 occurrences207–195 Mya — about 163 occurrences195–183 Mya — about 163 occurrences183–171 Mya — about 280 occurrences171–159 Mya — about 361 occurrences159–146 Mya — about 153 occurrences146–134 Mya — about 67 occurrences134–122 Mya — about 23 occurrences122–110 Mya — about 28 occurrences110–98 Mya — about 31 occurrences98–85 Mya — about 9 occurrences85–73 Mya — about 4 occurrences73–61 Mya — about 23 occurrences61–49 Mya — about 22 occurrences49–37 Mya — about 6 occurrences37–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences290.1 Mya2.58 Mya366 Mya0 Mya

1,670 occurrences of Ginkgoales on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

1,670 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

402 formations

Molteno — 29.50°S, 29.50°EMolteno — 30.50°S, 29.00°EMolteno — 28.57°S, 29.05°EMolteno — 31.10°S, 26.50°EMolteno — 31.50°S, 28.00°EMolteno — 30.80°S, 26.88°EMolteno — 30.53°S, 26.90°EMolteno — 31.47°S, 26.43°EMolteno — 30.90°S, 26.72°EMolteno — 31.50°S, 27.92°EMolteno — 30.50°S, 26.82°EMolteno — 30.83°S, 26.97°EMolteno — 31.47°S, 26.83°EMolteno — 31.57°S, 26.22°EMolteno — 31.48°S, 26.90°EMolteno — 31.17°S, 28.43°EMolteno — 31.40°S, 26.38°EMolteno — 30.68°S, 28.52°EMolteno — 31.05°S, 26.80°EMolteno — 31.57°S, 26.27°EMolteno — 30.00°S, 29.00°EMolteno — 31.53°S, 26.23°EMolteno — 30.68°S, 26.95°EMolteno — 31.62°S, 27.52°EMolteno — 31.50°S, 27.00°ESaltwick — 54.50°N, 0.75°WSaltwick — 54.40°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.33°N, 0.50°WSaltwick — 54.37°N, 1.25°WErbek Suite — 51.60°N, 94.20°EErbek Suite — 51.50°N, 95.50°ECorwin — 68.84°N, 163.16°WCorwin — 68.82°N, 162.18°WCorwin — 68.94°N, 162.98°WCorwin — 68.95°N, 162.95°WCorwin — 69.10°N, 162.89°WCorwin — 69.09°N, 162.84°WCorwin — 69.33°N, 162.56°WCorwin — 69.34°N, 162.41°WCorwin — 69.50°N, 162.77°WWerra — 51.52°N, 11.55°ECape Stewart — 70.50°N, 22.60°WOzhogino Suite — 66.40°N, 149.50°EOzhogino Suite — 66.10°N, 148.90°EOzhogino Suite — 65.60°N, 149.40°ECloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WCloughton — 54.17°N, 0.25°WBasal and coal-bearing Suite — 42.50°N, 78.70°EBasal and coal-bearing Suite — 42.60°N, 79.00°EFort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 108.05°WFort Union — 44.16°N, 107.85°WFort Union — 46.91°N, 101.44°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 43.88°N, 108.52°WFort Union — 43.03°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 43.05°N, 106.98°WFort Union — 46.00°N, 110.67°WFort Union — 46.71°N, 103.60°WBerge Suite — 63.80°N, 127.40°EBerge Suite — 64.50°N, 125.80°EBerge Suite — 64.90°N, 124.60°EBerge Suite — 63.50°N, 118.80°EBerge Suite — 63.60°N, 119.80°ELower Saltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WKamala Suite — 55.80°N, 94.90°EKamala Suite — 55.70°N, 94.70°EOr' Suite — 51.20°N, 58.60°EAngren Suite — 41.00°N, 70.20°EAngren Suite — 40.90°N, 71.00°EBalabansai — 40.80°N, 73.40°EBalabansai — 40.00°N, 70.50°EKrivorechenskaya — 64.48°N, 168.92°EUpper Osinniki Suite — 54.50°N, 87.40°EUpper Osinniki Suite — 54.50°N, 87.20°EUpper Osinniki Suite — 54.50°N, 86.80°EUpper Osinniki Suite — 54.60°N, 86.60°EPrisayan Suite — 52.60°N, 104.50°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.80°N, 37.60°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.60°N, 37.50°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.60°N, 37.40°EShahuozi — 44.20°N, 126.00°EMikhailovka Suite — 49.80°N, 73.10°EChusovitino Suite — 54.50°N, 87.00°EChusovitino Suite — 54.80°N, 86.30°EChusovitino Suite — 54.50°N, 86.80°ETutuyas Suite — 54.80°N, 87.80°E

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The named rock units Ginkgoales has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 378 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 313 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ginkgoales and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Ginkgoales and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

985 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 820 sites for Ginkgoales, and this reads 240 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

291 references

Each of the 1,670 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. 279 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 Ginkgoales

Credit
Peter R. Crane, Pollyanna von Knorring
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Ginkgoales 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.

The description on this site

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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. Goroschankin 1904