Selaginellaceae

Selaginella, also known as spikemosses or lesser clubmosses, is a genus of lycophyte. It is usually treated as the only genus in the family Selaginellaceae, with over 750 known species.

Selaginellaceae

L. Fdez. · CC BY-SA 2.1 es · 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
Also called
spikemossPBDB
Sits inside
SelaginellalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Environment
freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Lycopodiophyta

Time the record covers

At least 393 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 0 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 453 occurrencesDevonian — about 19 of 453 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 453 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 25 of 453 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 2 of 453 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 453 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 453 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 453 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 453 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 453 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 70 of 453 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 153 of 453 occurrencesPaleocene — about 24 of 453 occurrencesEocene — about 35 of 453 occurrencesOligocene — about 23 of 453 occurrencesMiocene — about 58 of 453 occurrencesPliocene — about 5 of 453 occurrencesPleistocene — about 18 of 453 occurrences428–414 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–399 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences399–385 Mya — about 12 occurrences385–371 Mya — about 6 occurrences371–357 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences328–314 Mya — about 1 occurrence300–285 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences285–271 Mya — about 20 occurrences271–257 Mya — about 4 occurrences257–243 Mya — about 4 occurrences243–228 Mya — about 2 occurrences228–214 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences214–200 Mya — about 2 occurrences200–185 Mya — about 2 occurrences185–171 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences171–157 Mya — about 3 occurrences157–143 Mya — about 4 occurrences143–128 Mya — about 4 occurrences128–114 Mya — about 29 occurrences114–100 Mya — about 45 occurrences100–86 Mya — about 100 occurrences86–71 Mya — about 25 occurrences71–57 Mya — about 43 occurrences57–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–29 Mya — about 40 occurrences29–14 Mya — about 39 occurrences14–0 Mya — about 61 occurrences393.47 Mya11.7 ka428 Mya0 Mya

453 occurrences of Selaginellaceae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

453 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

75 formations

Bathurst Island — 11.79°S, 130.23°EBathurst Island — 11.78°S, 130.35°EYaw — 23.25°N, 94.25°EYaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°EHidden Lake — 63.87°S, 57.99°WRiachuelo — 10.65°S, 37.04°WLa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.75°WLa Colonia — 43.02°S, 67.66°WLa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WLa Colonia — 42.97°S, 67.54°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WMonte Chico — 51.59°S, 72.41°WMonte Chico — 51.18°S, 72.29°WKachaike — 49.15°S, 72.07°WKachaike — 48.82°S, 72.12°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 47.32°N, 106.92°WFort Union — 48.92°N, 105.53°WFort Union — 46.55°N, 103.81°WRio Mayer — 49.06°S, 72.14°WRio Mayer — 48.82°S, 72.12°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.83°WWhisky Bay — 63.87°S, 58.08°WWhisky Bay — 63.83°S, 58.13°WRunnymede — 37.37°S, 140.90°ESan Sebastian — 18.37°N, 66.19°WSix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.25°EPiedra Clavada — 49.53°S, 71.48°WPiedra Clavada — 49.60°S, 71.47°WDinosaur Park — 50.82°N, 111.57°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.49°WLa Posa — 42.34°N, 0.57°EPanther Mountain — 42.43°N, 74.43°WFremouw — 84.00°S, 165.00°EDenver — 38.85°N, 104.66°WDenver — 39.75°N, 105.22°WDakota — 42.50°N, 96.40°Wunnamed — 81.23°N, 92.20°WSabine Bay — 80.35°N, 81.18°W

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The named rock units Selaginellaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 51 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 171 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Selaginellaceae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Selaginellaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

3,023 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 248 sites for Selaginellaceae, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

107 references

Each of the 453 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. 95 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 Selaginellaceae

Credit
L. Fdez.
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.1 es
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Selaginellaceae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itSelaginellales through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Willkomm 1854