Pekinopteris sp.
No picture of Pekinopteris sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Pekinopteris sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pekinopteris sp. on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
2 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
1 formation
- Pekin Formation · Chatham Group2
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The named rock units Pekinopteris sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pekinopteris sp. and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Pekinopteris sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Otozamites2 sites
- Phlebopteris2 sites
- Pseudoctenis2 sites
- Pterophyllum2 sites
- Williamsonia2 sites
- Cladophlebis1 site
- Cladophlebis microphylla1 site
- Clathopteris sp.1 site
- Coelurosaurichnus1 site
- Compsostrobus1 site
- Cynepteris1 site
- Cyzicus1 site
- Danaeopsis1 site
- Eoginkgoites1 site
- Ischnophyton sp.1 site
- Laccopteris1 site
- Leptocycas1 site
- Lonchopteris1 site
- Lonchopteris virginiensis1 site
- Matridiostrobus sp.1 site
- Neocalamites knowltoni1 site
- Neocalamites virginiensis1 site
- Pekinopteris auriculata n. gen. n. sp.1 site
- Pelourdea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pekinopteris sp., 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
2 references- Stop 1.1: Boren Clay Products Quarry, Gulf, NC1
- Pekinopteris auriculata: a new plant from the North Carolina Triassic1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pekinopteris sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Pekinopteris sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Pekinopteris sp. 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.