Lycopodiales

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.

Lycopodiales

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LycopodiopsidaPBDB
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 782 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 31 of 782 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 6 of 782 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 782 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 782 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 782 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 27 of 782 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 30 of 782 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 29 of 782 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 229 of 782 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 184 of 782 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 53 of 782 occurrencesEocene — about 94 of 782 occurrencesOligocene — about 13 of 782 occurrencesMiocene — about 34 of 782 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 782 occurrencesPleistocene — about 34 of 782 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 3 occurrences277–264 Mya — about 1 occurrence264–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences251–237 Mya — about 3 occurrences237–224 Mya — about 2 occurrences224–211 Mya — about 2 occurrences211–198 Mya — about 5 occurrences198–185 Mya — about 13 occurrences185–171 Mya — about 17 occurrences171–158 Mya — about 29 occurrences158–145 Mya — about 21 occurrences145–132 Mya — about 9 occurrences132–119 Mya — about 31 occurrences119–106 Mya — about 153 occurrences106–92 Mya — about 88 occurrences92–79 Mya — about 20 occurrences79–66 Mya — about 115 occurrences66–53 Mya — about 69 occurrences53–40 Mya — about 52 occurrences40–26 Mya — about 35 occurrences26–13 Mya — about 28 occurrences13–0 Mya — about 50 occurrences379 Mya11.7 ka396 Mya0 Mya

782 occurrences of Lycopodiales 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

782 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

174 formations

Riachuelo — 10.65°S, 37.04°WTambo — 27.34°S, 135.72°ETambo — 29.13°S, 140.88°ERunnymede — 37.37°S, 140.90°EBathurst Island — 11.79°S, 130.23°EBathurst Island — 11.78°S, 130.35°EHell Creek — 46.35°N, 103.87°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WFort 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°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.28°S, 56.77°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.31°S, 56.88°WAgua Doce — 3.69°S, 44.56°WMisoa — 10.88°N, 72.38°WKatrol — 23.28°N, 69.66°EKatrol — 23.27°N, 69.65°ELefipán — 42.67°S, 69.83°WLefipán — 42.58°S, 69.98°WMuribeca — 10.65°S, 37.04°WChorrillo — 50.50°S, 72.56°WMirador — 10.88°N, 72.38°WMonte Chico — 51.59°S, 72.41°WMonte Chico — 51.18°S, 72.29°WBhuj — 23.60°N, 69.00°EBhuj — 23.32°N, 69.77°ELa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.75°WLa Colonia — 43.02°S, 67.66°WLa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WLa Colonia — 42.97°S, 67.54°WKachaike — 49.06°S, 72.14°WKachaike — 48.82°S, 72.12°WKachaike — 49.00°S, 72.00°WCherra — 25.32°N, 91.73°EEumeralla — 38.85°S, 143.55°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°W

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The named rock units Lycopodiales has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 150 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 195 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lycopodiales and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,847 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 415 sites for Lycopodiales, 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

183 references

Each of the 782 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. 171 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 Lycopodiales

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

No 3D scan of Lycopodiales 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. Dumortier 1829