Lycopodiaceae

The Lycopodiaceae are an old family of vascular plants, including all of the core clubmosses and firmosses, comprising 17 accepted genera and about 500 known species. This family originated about 380 million years ago in the early Devonian, though the diversity within the family has been much more recent. "Wolf foot" is another common name for this family due to the resemblance of either the roots or branch tips to a wolf's paw.

Lycopodiaceae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LycopodialesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Environment
freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Lycopodiophyta

Time the record covers

At least 378 million years on record.

The record covers at least 379 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 3 of 514 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 31 of 514 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 5 of 514 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 514 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 514 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 6 of 514 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 27 of 514 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 28 of 514 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 27 of 514 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 108 of 514 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 97 of 514 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 21 of 514 occurrencesEocene — about 76 of 514 occurrencesOligocene — about 11 of 514 occurrencesMiocene — about 31 of 514 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 514 occurrencesPleistocene — about 34 of 514 occurrences396–383 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences383–369 Mya — about 1 occurrence369–356 Mya — about 2 occurrences356–343 Mya — about 2 occurrences343–330 Mya — about 1 occurrence330–317 Mya — about 5 occurrences317–303 Mya — about 17 occurrences303–290 Mya — about 4 occurrences290–277 Mya — about 2 occurrences277–264 Mya — about 1 occurrence264–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences251–237 Mya — about 3 occurrences237–224 Mya — about 1 occurrence224–211 Mya — about 2 occurrences211–198 Mya — about 5 occurrences198–185 Mya — about 13 occurrences185–171 Mya — about 17 occurrences171–158 Mya — about 26 occurrences158–145 Mya — about 19 occurrences145–132 Mya — about 8 occurrences132–119 Mya — about 11 occurrences119–106 Mya — about 62 occurrences106–92 Mya — about 75 occurrences92–79 Mya — about 8 occurrences79–66 Mya — about 45 occurrences66–53 Mya — about 32 occurrences53–40 Mya — about 42 occurrences40–26 Mya — about 30 occurrences26–13 Mya — about 26 occurrences13–0 Mya — about 49 occurrences379 Mya11.7 ka396 Mya0 Mya

514 occurrences of Lycopodiaceae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

514 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

137 formations

Tambo — 27.34°S, 135.72°ETambo — 29.13°S, 140.88°EBathurst Island — 11.79°S, 130.23°EBathurst Island — 11.78°S, 130.35°ERunnymede — 37.37°S, 140.90°EFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.48°N, 105.67°WFort Union — 44.71°N, 106.17°WFort Union — 44.84°N, 106.09°WHell Creek — 46.35°N, 103.87°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WAgua Doce — 3.69°S, 44.56°WKatrol — 23.28°N, 69.66°EKatrol — 23.27°N, 69.65°EBhuj — 23.60°N, 69.00°EBhuj — 23.32°N, 69.77°ECherra — 25.32°N, 91.73°ESpoon — 40.00°N, 88.00°WCarbondale — 40.00°N, 88.00°WCarbondale — 39.00°N, 87.00°WQueimadas — 3.69°S, 44.56°WPreguicas — 3.69°S, 44.56°WRío Turbio — 51.28°S, 72.16°WRío Turbio — 51.60°S, 72.30°WRío Turbio — 51.47°S, 72.23°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WDensuș-Ciula — 45.62°N, 22.78°ESan Sebastian — 18.37°N, 66.19°WTradewater — 37.56°N, 88.51°WTradewater — 37.50°N, 88.01°WBaqueró — 48.52°S, 69.17°WCullen — 52.87°S, 68.41°WPaso del Sapo — 42.67°S, 70.01°WYaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°ELa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WLa Colonia — 42.97°S, 67.54°WTuscaloosa — 33.92°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°W

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The named rock units Lycopodiaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 113 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 165 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lycopodiaceae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Lycopodiaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,788 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 330 sites for Lycopodiaceae, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

142 references

Each of the 514 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. 130 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 Lycopodiaceae

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

No 3D scan of Lycopodiaceae 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. Mirbel 1802