Ptilozamites

Ptilozamites is an extinct genus of pteridosperm, known from the Triassic and Early Jurassic of the Northern Hemisphere. It is associated with the pollen organ Harrisiothecium.

Ptilozamites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 174.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 76 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 6 of 76 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 64 of 76 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 6 of 76 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 76 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 76 occurrences249–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–243 Mya — about 1 occurrence243–240 Mya — about 2 occurrences240–237 Mya — about 3 occurrences237–234 Mya — about 4 occurrences234–231 Mya — about 4 occurrences231–228 Mya — about 4 occurrences228–225 Mya — about 5 occurrences225–222 Mya — about 5 occurrences222–219 Mya — about 5 occurrences219–216 Mya — about 5 occurrences216–213 Mya — about 5 occurrences213–210 Mya — about 5 occurrences210–207 Mya — about 5 occurrences207–204 Mya — about 7 occurrences204–201 Mya — about 10 occurrences201–198 Mya — about 2 occurrences198–195 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences195–192 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences189–186 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences184–181 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences181–178 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences178–175 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences175–172 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences172–169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences169–166 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243.43 Mya174.7 Mya249 Mya160 Mya

76 occurrences of Ptilozamites 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

76 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

19 formations

Cape Stewart — 70.50°N, 22.60°WAnyuan — 27.60°N, 113.80°EAnyuan — 28.50°N, 118.00°EAnyuan — 29.80°N, 118.50°EMine — 56.08°N, 12.90°EDajingkou — 27.50°N, 109.90°EWenbinshan — 25.50°N, 117.60°EYangmeilong — 26.10°N, 113.30°EWerfen — 46.66°N, 11.92°EWerfen — 46.75°N, 12.06°EShanqiutian-Shanjiachong — 28.20°N, 113.60°EZhijiachong — 28.20°N, 113.60°EDingjiayao — 38.80°N, 99.40°EJiaoking — 27.30°N, 117.40°EBaoding — 26.90°N, 101.50°EYinzhuniangar — 31.00°N, 100.30°ELamaya — 30.00°N, 100.20°EKadir Suite — 37.00°N, 46.70°EGarazhovka — 49.00°N, 38.00°ENovorayskaya Suite — 48.80°N, 37.60°EDont — 46.74°N, 12.12°EMeride Limestone — 45.93°N, 8.95°E

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The named rock units Ptilozamites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ptilozamites and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Ptilozamites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

273 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Ptilozamites, 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

24 references

Each of the 76 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. 12 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 content1

Picture of Ptilozamites

Credit
Ghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ptilozamites 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itUmkomasiaceae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nathorst 1878