Laccopteris

Laccopteris

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 105 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 6 of 18 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 6 of 18 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 18 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 18 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 18 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous239–235 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences235–231 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences231–227 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences227–222 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences222–218 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences218–214 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences214–209 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences209–205 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences205–201 Mya — about 2 occurrences201–197 Mya — about 1 occurrence197–192 Mya — about 1 occurrence192–188 Mya — about 1 occurrence188–184 Mya — about 1 occurrence184–179 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences179–175 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences175–171 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences171–167 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences167–162 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences162–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–149 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences149–145 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–119 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences119–115 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences227.3 Mya121.4 Mya239 Mya111 Mya

18 occurrences of Laccopteris on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

18 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

7 formations

Rosario — 17.80°N, 98.20°WPekin — 35.50°N, 79.40°WMashabba — 30.70°N, 33.40°EMakarovo Suite — 56.00°N, 90.40°EOrel' Suite — 48.70°N, 34.30°EGrès et argiles supérieurs — 39.78°N, 9.23°WSainte-Barbe Clays — 50.48°N, 3.65°E

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The named rock units Laccopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Laccopteris and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Laccopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

205 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Laccopteris, 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

12 references

Each of the 18 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

Media content1

Picture of Laccopteris

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itMatoniaceae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Presl 1838