Ptilophyllum

A picture published with the record for Ptilophyllum. What it shows has not been checked.

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 171 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 508 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 508 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 89 of 508 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 179 of 508 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 136 of 508 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 91 of 508 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 508 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 508 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 508 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 508 occurrences241–234 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences234–227 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences227–219 Mya — about 2 occurrences219–212 Mya — about 2 occurrences212–205 Mya — about 2 occurrences205–198 Mya — about 14 occurrences198–190 Mya — about 23 occurrences190–183 Mya — about 21 occurrences183–176 Mya — about 28 occurrences176–168 Mya — about 97 occurrences168–161 Mya — about 89 occurrences161–154 Mya — about 53 occurrences154–147 Mya — about 53 occurrences147–139 Mya — about 37 occurrences139–132 Mya — about 13 occurrences132–125 Mya — about 15 occurrences125–118 Mya — about 20 occurrences118–110 Mya — about 18 occurrences110–103 Mya — about 12 occurrences103–96 Mya — about 5 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences89–81 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences81–74 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences74–67 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences205.7 Mya33.9 Mya241 Mya23 Mya

508 occurrences of Ptilophyllum 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

508 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

122 formations

Bhuj — 23.70°N, 70.85°EBhuj — 23.22°N, 69.74°EBhuj — 23.32°N, 69.77°EBhuj — 23.79°N, 68.85°EBhuj — 23.28°N, 69.36°EBhuj — 23.48°N, 69.27°EBhuj — 23.08°N, 69.60°EBhuj — 23.20°N, 69.56°EBhuj — 23.10°N, 69.43°EBhuj — 23.18°N, 69.38°EBhuj — 23.08°N, 69.32°EBhuj — 23.31°N, 69.32°EBhuj — 23.60°N, 69.00°EBhuj — 23.21°N, 70.08°EBhuj — 23.68°N, 68.87°ESaltwick — 54.50°N, 0.75°WSaltwick — 54.40°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.50°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.37°N, 1.25°WSaltwick — 54.49°N, 1.11°WRajmahal — 25.08°N, 87.74°ERajmahal — 25.03°N, 87.59°ERajmahal — 25.14°N, 87.50°ERajmahal — 24.52°N, 87.57°ERajmahal — 25.21°N, 87.50°ERajmahal — 25.24°N, 87.71°ERajmahal — 20.52°N, 85.63°EJabalpur — 22.50°N, 78.50°EJabalpur — 23.11°N, 80.13°EJabalpur — 22.32°N, 77.47°EJabalpur — 22.37°N, 77.61°EJabalpur — 22.61°N, 78.04°EJabalpur — 23.77°N, 81.47°EGangapur — 19.27°N, 79.43°EGangapur — 19.41°N, 79.18°EGangapur — 17.27°N, 81.01°EGollapalle — 17.16°N, 81.71°EBhuj (plus Jhuran in part?) — 23.40°N, 69.50°EPautut — 70.25°N, 54.50°WCloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WCloughton — 54.17°N, 0.25°WSteierdorf — 45.08°N, 21.85°EKokala Suite — 44.30°N, 51.80°EKokala Suite — 44.10°N, 52.20°ETecomazuchil — 18.20°N, 98.00°WTecomazuchil — 17.80°N, 98.00°WTecomazuchil — 17.80°N, 98.10°WZorrillo — 17.60°N, 97.60°WZorrillo — 17.60°N, 97.80°WCoal Suite — 42.80°N, 41.70°ECoal Suite — 42.70°N, 42.00°ECoal Suite — 42.40°N, 42.90°EAthgarh — 20.50°N, 85.80°EAthgarh — 19.80°N, 85.81°EAthgarh — 20.51°N, 85.74°ENesterov Suite — 50.10°N, 24.30°ERosario — 17.80°N, 98.20°WPiedra del Aguila — 40.00°S, 70.10°WLower Xiangshan — 32.00°N, 118.80°ENegoya — 37.00°N, 137.80°ETochikubo — 37.70°N, 140.90°EUpper Tanasha Suite — 44.50°N, 51.60°EUpper Tanasha Suite — 43.30°N, 53.60°ECommotion — 54.42°N, 120.37°WAguilar — 42.71°N, 4.30°W

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The named rock units Ptilophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 98 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 138 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ptilophyllum and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

649 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 304 sites for Ptilophyllum, and this reads 240 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

128 references

Each of the 508 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. 116 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 Ptilophyllum

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
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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. Morris 1840