Ginkgoites

Ginkgoites is a genus of extinct plants belonging to Ginkgoaceae. Fossils of these plants have been found around the globe during the Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, with fossils also known from the Paleogene. The name was created as a form genus in 1919 by Albert Seward, who stated: "I ... propose to employ the name Ginkgoites for leaves that it is believed belong either to plants generically identical with Ginkgo or to very closely allied types."

Ginkgoites

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
GinkgophytaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 267 million years on record.

The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 364 occurrencesPermian — about 12 of 364 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 364 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 10 of 364 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 57 of 364 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 93 of 364 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 76 of 364 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 80 of 364 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 364 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 364 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 364 occurrencesEocene — about 20 of 364 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 364 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 364 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 364 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 364 occurrences305–295 Mya — about 1 occurrence295–284 Mya — about 6 occurrences284–274 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences274–264 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences264–254 Mya — about 3 occurrences254–244 Mya — about 6 occurrences244–234 Mya — about 12 occurrences234–223 Mya — about 15 occurrences223–213 Mya — about 13 occurrences213–203 Mya — about 18 occurrences203–193 Mya — about 33 occurrences193–183 Mya — about 37 occurrences183–173 Mya — about 42 occurrences173–163 Mya — about 59 occurrences163–152 Mya — about 42 occurrences152–142 Mya — about 43 occurrences142–132 Mya — about 2 occurrences132–122 Mya — about 5 occurrences122–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–51 Mya — about 12 occurrences51–41 Mya — about 7 occurrences41–30 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences30–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–10 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences10–0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences290.1 Mya23.04 Mya305 Mya0 Mya

364 occurrences of Ginkgoites 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

364 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

135 formations

Huitrera — 42.50°S, 70.00°WMolteno — 30.50°S, 29.00°EMolteno — 28.57°S, 29.05°EMolteno — 29.50°S, 29.50°EMolteno — 31.50°S, 28.00°EMolteno — 30.90°S, 26.72°EMolteno — 30.50°S, 26.82°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 — 31.05°S, 26.80°EMolteno — 31.50°S, 27.00°ECape Stewart — 70.50°N, 22.60°WFuxing — 42.00°N, 121.50°EFuxing — 42.30°N, 123.90°EFuxing — 42.30°N, 119.00°EShahuozi — 44.20°N, 126.00°EUpper Kushmur Suite — 52.50°N, 64.70°ENaizhishan — 43.60°N, 127.20°ENaizhishan — 43.70°N, 127.30°EKok-Yangak Suite — 41.00°N, 73.20°ELa Ternera — 27.12°S, 69.80°WLa Ternera — 27.15°S, 69.72°WZhiluo — 40.30°N, 110.00°EZhiluo — 35.10°N, 109.00°EZhiluo — 36.00°N, 106.20°EZhiluo — 38.90°N, 105.60°EXishanyao — 44.00°N, 89.00°EXishanyao — 44.00°N, 88.00°EXishanyao — 44.00°N, 87.20°EXishanyao — 46.00°N, 83.00°EXishanyao — 42.60°N, 93.20°EJiangchang — 37.10°N, 99.00°EYanan — 35.00°N, 106.90°EYanan — 40.00°N, 110.00°EChengzhi — 45.90°N, 133.00°ELongjiagou — 33.60°N, 104.80°ELongjiagou — 33.90°N, 106.50°EJinggangshan — 42.30°N, 119.00°EJinggangshan — 42.10°N, 120.00°EHongqi — 42.80°N, 126.40°EHongqi — 48.00°N, 122.80°ELower Kushmur Suite — 52.50°N, 64.70°EBoroldai Suite — 43.00°N, 70.00°EPrisayan and Cheremkhovo Suites — 52.60°N, 104.00°EMolteno — 29.50°S, 27.50°EMolteno — 29.63°S, 27.51°EFuxian — 39.10°N, 111.00°EFuxian — 36.00°N, 109.30°EKangsu — 38.90°N, 76.00°EKangsu — 39.90°N, 75.00°EBataowuan — 43.00°N, 89.10°EBataowuan — 42.80°N, 88.60°E

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The named rock units Ginkgoites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 111 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 67 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ginkgoites and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Ginkgoites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

675 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 251 sites for Ginkgoites, 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

91 references

Each of the 364 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. 79 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 Ginkgoites

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ginkgoites was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGinkgophyta through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Seward 1919