Umaltolepis

Umaltolepis is an extinct genus of seed plant, known from the Early Jurassic to Early Cretaceous of Asia. Within the form classification system used within paleobotany, it refers to the seed-bearing reproductive structures, which grew on woody plants with strap-shaped Ginkgo-like leaves assigned to the genus Pseudotorellia.

Umaltolepis

Ashley A. Klymiuk, Gar W. Rothwell, Ruth A. Stockey · 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
PseudotorelliaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 154.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 1 occurrenceMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate Jurassic165–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165.8 Mya154.3 Mya

1 occurrence of Umaltolepis on record, most of them in the Late 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

1 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

1 formation

Talyndzhan Suite — 51.60°N, 133.30°E

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The named rock units Umaltolepis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Umaltolepis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Umaltolepis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

32 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Umaltolepis, 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 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Umaltolepis

Credit
Ashley A. Klymiuk, Gar W. Rothwell, Ruth A. Stockey
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Umaltolepis 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 itPseudotorelliaceae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Krasilov 1972