Taeniopteris vittata

Taeniopteris vittata

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 168.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 165.3 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 4 of 6 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 6 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic254–251 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences251–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–236 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences236–233 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences233–230 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences230–227 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences227–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–203 Mya — about 1 occurrence203–200 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences185–182 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences182–179 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences179–176 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences176–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences227.3 Mya168.2 Mya254 Mya164 Mya

6 occurrences of Taeniopteris vittata 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

6 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

3 formations

Taynton Limestone — 51.80°N, 1.40°WSanta Juana — 37.20°S, 72.84°WLa Ternera — 27.12°S, 69.80°W

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The named rock units Taeniopteris vittata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Taeniopteris vittata and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Taeniopteris vittata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

77 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Taeniopteris vittata, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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. 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 Taeniopteris vittata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Taeniopteris vittata 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.

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brongniart 1831)