Archaeopteris

Searched as Palaeopteris. The Paleobiology Database treats Archaeopteris as the accepted name.

No picture of Archaeopteris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Archaeopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 383.4 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 124 of 131 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 7 of 131 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 131 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–384 Mya — about 1 occurrence384–380 Mya — about 16 occurrences380–377 Mya — about 22 occurrences377–374 Mya — about 19 occurrences374–371 Mya — about 16 occurrences371–368 Mya — about 8 occurrences368–365 Mya — about 14 occurrences365–362 Mya — about 14 occurrences362–359 Mya — about 14 occurrences359–356 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences356–353 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences353–350 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences350–347 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences347–343 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences343–340 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences340–337 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences337–334 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences334–331 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences328–325 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences325–322 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences322–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–316 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences316–313 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences313–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383.4 Mya358.86 Mya390 Mya297 Mya

131 occurrences of Archaeopteris on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

131 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

30 formations

Katsberg — 42.08°N, 75.30°WKatsberg — 42.07°N, 75.38°WKatsberg — 42.30°N, 75.38°WKatsberg — 42.07°N, 74.35°WEvieux — 50.33°N, 4.98°EEvieux — 50.37°N, 5.02°EEvieux — 50.33°N, 5.13°EEvieux — 50.45°N, 5.28°EEvieux — 50.52°N, 5.37°EEvieux — 50.53°N, 5.57°EEvieux — 50.58°N, 5.75°EEvieux — 50.67°N, 5.70°EEvieux — 50.18°N, 5.38°EEvieux — 50.72°N, 5.98°EHampshire — 38.91°N, 79.73°WHampshire — 38.53°N, 80.06°WHampshire — 38.55°N, 80.03°WChemung — 39.85°N, 79.47°WChemung — 41.62°N, 76.05°WChemung — 41.58°N, 75.78°WChemung — 42.23°N, 76.85°WChemung — 41.67°N, 75.92°WOneonta — 42.28°N, 74.22°WOneonta — 42.28°N, 74.41°WOneonta — 42.28°N, 74.30°WOneonta — 42.43°N, 74.92°WOneonta — 42.38°N, 74.27°WStony clove — 42.07°N, 75.37°WStony clove — 41.95°N, 75.25°WCatskill — 41.68°N, 74.13°WCatskill — 41.79°N, 78.20°WKatzberg — 42.07°N, 75.37°WEscuminac — 48.13°N, 66.30°WEscuminac — 48.11°N, 66.40°WEnfield — 41.95°N, 75.25°WPocono — 41.82°N, 78.28°WPocono — 41.23°N, 77.60°WHugh Miller Cliffs — 48.12°N, 66.63°WYahatinda — 51.32°N, 115.00°WWalton — 42.07°N, 74.87°WWalton — 41.00°N, 75.00°WOneonta ss. & sh. — 42.38°N, 74.27°WOswayo sandstone — 41.82°N, 78.28°WCuba silt shale (Chadakoin) — 41.82°N, 78.37°WCattaraugus — 42.00°N, 78.48°Wlower Pocono — 40.82°N, 79.52°WCherry Ridge — 41.33°N, 75.80°WDelaware River flags — 41.42°N, 74.73°WBellvale Sandstone — 41.25°N, 74.32°WNew Albany Shale — 37.58°N, 84.80°WTradewater — 37.52°N, 88.75°W

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The named rock units Archaeopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Archaeopteris and its relatives

Devonian

Where Archaeopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

196 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 93 sites for Archaeopteris, 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

27 references

Each of the 131 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. 15 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 content0

No picture of Archaeopteris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Archaeopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Archaeopteris 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itArchaeopteridaceae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schimper 1869