Onoclea hesperia

Onoclea hesperia

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 7.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 63.4 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 51.1 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 19 occurrencesPaleocene — about 18 of 19 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 19 occurrencesEocene67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–63 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–56 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63.4 Mya56 Mya66.5 Mya50.6 Mya

19 occurrences of Onoclea hesperia on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

19 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

Fort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 49.00°N, 111.97°WFort Union — 47.32°N, 106.92°WFort Union — 41.32°N, 109.20°WFort Union — 48.92°N, 105.53°WFort Union — 41.55°N, 108.70°WFort Union — 41.37°N, 109.21°WFort Union — 47.90°N, 102.82°WRavenscrag — 49.51°N, 109.02°WGolden Valley — 47.00°N, 101.55°WGolden Valley — 46.97°N, 102.08°WTullock — 46.22°N, 104.42°WTullock — 47.10°N, 104.72°W

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The named rock units Onoclea hesperia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Onoclea hesperia and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Onoclea hesperia and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

74 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Onoclea hesperia, 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 19 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 Onoclea hesperia

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No 3D scan of Onoclea hesperia 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.

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What may have been alongside itOnoclea through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hickey 1977