Kylikipteris

Kylikipteris

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 10 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 10 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 4 of 10 occurrencesLate Jurassic202–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences195–193 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences192–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–173 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 1 occurrence152–150 Mya — about 1 occurrence150–148 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences192.9 Mya154.8 Mya202 Mya148 Mya

10 occurrences of Kylikipteris 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

10 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

4 formations

Steierdorf — 45.08°N, 21.85°ELower Saltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WCloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°W

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The named rock units Kylikipteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kylikipteris and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Kylikipteris and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

109 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Kylikipteris, 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

4 references

Each of the 10 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 content1

Picture of Kylikipteris

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Kylikipteris 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.

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

Keep going

What may have been alongside itDicksoniaceae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harris 1961