Pyrrosia
Pyrrosia is a genus of about 100 fern species in the polypod family, Polypodiaceae. Like other species in Polypodiaceae, the species of Pyrrosia are generally epiphytic on trees or rocks, a few species are terrestrial. The Latin name of Pyrrosia comes from the Greek pyrrhos (red), which refers to its leaves that are red due to the sporangia.
Tu7uh · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlatycerioideaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Pyrrosia on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
9 occurrences- Pleistocene91%
- Holocene9%
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.
Pyrrosia and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Pyrrosia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Aphananthe9 sites
- Asteraceae9 sites
- Casuarina9 sites
- Celtis9 sites
- Cyatheaceae9 sites
- Cyperaceae9 sites
- Cyperus unioloides9 sites
- Davallia9 sites
- Eleocharis9 sites
- Eucalyptus9 sites
- Eugenia9 sites
- Haloragis9 sites
- Hydrocotyle9 sites
- Macaranga9 sites
- Mallotus9 sites
- Monolete9 sites
- Moraceae9 sites
- Poaceae9 sites
- Podocarpus9 sites
- Rapanea9 sites
- Rutaceae9 sites
- Trema9 sites
- Urticaceae9 sites
- Chenopodiaceae8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Pyrrosia, 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
1 referenceEach of the 9 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Pyrrosia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Tu7uh
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Pyrrosia”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlatycerioideae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mirbel 1803