Lycopodites

Lycopodites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 323 million years on record.

The record covers at least 379 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 69 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 3 of 69 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 69 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 69 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 69 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 4 of 69 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 22 of 69 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 24 of 69 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 7 of 69 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 69 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 69 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 69 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 69 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 69 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 69 occurrences395–383 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences383–370 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences370–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–345 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences345–332 Mya — about 1 occurrence332–319 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences319–307 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences307–294 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences243–231 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences231–218 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences218–205 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences205–193 Mya — about 6 occurrences193–180 Mya — about 13 occurrences180–168 Mya — about 21 occurrences168–155 Mya — about 10 occurrences155–142 Mya — about 5 occurrences142–130 Mya — about 2 occurrences130–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–92 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences92–79 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences79–66 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences66–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–41 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences41–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences379 Mya56 Mya395 Mya16 Mya

69 occurrences of Lycopodites on record, most of them in the Middle 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

69 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

51 formations

Mine — 56.08°N, 12.90°EUpper Alakol' Suite — 46.00°N, 82.20°ECheremkhovo Suite — 52.60°N, 104.00°EOr' Suite — 51.20°N, 58.60°EUst'-Balei Suite — 52.60°N, 104.00°EUpper Cheremkhovo Suite — 52.60°N, 104.00°ESaldam Suite — 51.70°N, 94.40°ESaldam Suite — 52.50°N, 96.10°ETuscaloosa — 33.92°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WDrywood — 38.00°N, 93.00°WSaltwick — 54.50°N, 0.75°WLower Saltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WCloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WWalloon Coal Measures — 27.60°S, 152.60°EManketouwobuo — 44.80°N, 119.40°EShahuozi — 44.20°N, 126.00°EXingmingbao — 43.00°N, 118.40°EJinggangshan — 42.10°N, 120.00°EBaipiao — 41.80°N, 120.80°ELower Coal Suite — 42.80°N, 70.20°ETaldykol' Suite — 51.20°N, 75.60°EZhargalant Suite — 47.00°N, 95.90°ELower Osinniki and Tersyuk Suites — 54.50°N, 87.00°ESartaki Suite — 54.50°N, 87.40°EOsinniki and Tersyuk Suites — 54.50°N, 87.00°E

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The named rock units Lycopodites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lycopodites and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Lycopodites and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

772 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Lycopodites, 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

44 references

Each of the 69 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. 32 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 content2

Picture of Lycopodites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
MGRRE
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1822