Sagenopteris

Sagenopteris is a form genus of leaves belonging to the extinct seed plant order Caytoniales, spanning from the Middle Triassic to Late Cretaceous.

Sagenopteris

Yuanyuan Xu, Maria Barbacka, Paweł Kapusta, Agata Jarzynka, Yongdong Wang, Stephen McLoughlin · CC BY 4.0 · 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
CaytoniaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 185 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 66 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 293 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 293 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 5 of 293 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 293 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 293 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 37 of 293 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 59 of 293 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 99 of 293 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 33 of 293 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 52 of 293 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 293 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 293 occurrences365–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences344–334 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences334–324 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences324–314 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences314–304 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences304–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–283 Mya — about 2 occurrences273–263 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences263–253 Mya — about 2 occurrences253–243 Mya — about 1 occurrence243–233 Mya — about 7 occurrences233–223 Mya — about 9 occurrences223–212 Mya — about 8 occurrences212–202 Mya — about 15 occurrences202–192 Mya — about 22 occurrences192–182 Mya — about 21 occurrences182–172 Mya — about 29 occurrences172–162 Mya — about 87 occurrences162–152 Mya — about 18 occurrences152–141 Mya — about 16 occurrences141–131 Mya — about 3 occurrences131–121 Mya — about 6 occurrences121–111 Mya — about 37 occurrences111–101 Mya — about 6 occurrences101–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298.9 Mya113.2 Mya365 Mya60 Mya

293 occurrences of Sagenopteris 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

293 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

95 formations

Kootenai — 47.48°N, 111.37°WSaltwick — 54.40°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.50°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.37°N, 1.25°WCape Stewart — 70.50°N, 22.60°WCloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WCloughton — 54.17°N, 0.25°WSteierdorf — 45.08°N, 21.87°EKokala Suite — 44.30°N, 51.80°EKokala Suite — 44.10°N, 52.20°EDzharsu Suite — 44.20°N, 52.50°EDzharsu Suite — 44.40°N, 51.30°EDzharsu Suite — 43.60°N, 53.60°EDzharsu Suite — 44.20°N, 51.90°EYagman coal Suite — 39.80°N, 54.30°EKrivorechenskaya — 64.48°N, 168.92°EBantou — 27.80°N, 118.00°EBantou — 26.00°N, 117.40°EUpper Gring Suite — 38.20°N, 70.40°EUpper Gurud Suite — 38.60°N, 67.40°ECommotion — 54.42°N, 120.37°WBhuj — 23.18°N, 69.38°EBhuj — 23.28°N, 69.36°EBhuj — 23.48°N, 69.27°EPautut — 70.25°N, 54.50°WLower Saltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WMine — 56.08°N, 12.90°EMine — 56.10°N, 12.85°EPiedra Pintada — 40.10°S, 70.20°WPotrerillos — 33.00°S, 69.10°WPotrerillos — 33.08°S, 69.11°WLengshuiwu — 25.20°N, 115.40°ELengshuiwu — 27.60°N, 116.60°EVayaobao — 35.20°N, 109.20°EDaqiaode — 26.60°N, 101.80°ENanyuan — 23.70°N, 117.20°EValle Alto — 5.20°N, 75.60°W

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The named rock units Sagenopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 71 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 100 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sagenopteris and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

1,065 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 226 sites for Sagenopteris, 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

116 references

Each of the 293 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. 104 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 Sagenopteris

Credit
Yuanyuan Xu, Maria Barbacka, Paweł Kapusta, Agata Jarzynka, Yongdong Wang, Stephen McLoughlin
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sagenopteris 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itCaytoniaceae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Presl 1838