Woodwardia

Woodwardia

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 307 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 309.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 10 of 70 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 70 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 70 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 70 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 70 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 70 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 70 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 70 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 70 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 70 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 26 of 70 occurrencesEocene — about 18 of 70 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 70 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 70 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 70 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 70 occurrences316–305 Mya — about 4 occurrences305–295 Mya — about 6 occurrences84–74 Mya — about 7 occurrences74–63 Mya — about 9 occurrences63–53 Mya — about 30 occurrences53–42 Mya — about 6 occurrences42–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences307.4 Mya11.7 ka316 Mya0 Mya

70 occurrences of Woodwardia on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

70 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

20 formations

Fort Union — 44.00°N, 108.00°WFort Union — 41.55°N, 109.26°WFort Union — 41.55°N, 109.26°WFort Union — 41.33°N, 109.24°WFort Union — 41.46°N, 108.71°WFort Union — 41.57°N, 108.58°WFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.90°WFort Union — 43.88°N, 108.52°WFort Union — 41.23°N, 108.85°WFort Union — 48.99°N, 105.27°WFort Union — 46.92°N, 103.83°WEagle — 44.98°N, 108.87°WWasatch — 41.82°N, 108.03°WWasatch — 41.69°N, 108.20°WWasatch — 41.93°N, 108.00°WCommentry Shales — 46.29°N, 2.75°EWillwood — 44.28°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WRavenscrag — 49.51°N, 109.02°WCarbondale — 41.22°N, 88.21°WCarbondale — 41.32°N, 88.25°WLance — 43.09°N, 104.65°WLance — 43.17°N, 104.59°WTullock — 46.58°N, 105.88°WTullock — 47.10°N, 104.72°WChausuyama — 36.58°N, 138.17°ESepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WKirtland — 36.27°N, 108.24°WGolden Valley — 47.62°N, 102.75°WDenver — 39.75°N, 105.22°WMiddle Park — 40.07°N, 106.10°WShoshone? — 39.32°N, 105.90°WGuchengzi — 41.84°N, 123.90°ETumenzi — 43.32°N, 128.16°EChu Chua — 51.36°N, 120.15°WTukwila — 47.50°N, 122.29°W

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The named rock units Woodwardia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Woodwardia and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Woodwardia and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

554 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Woodwardia, 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

22 references

Each of the 70 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. 10 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 content2

Picture of Woodwardia

Credit
Serdio
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itWoodwardioideae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith 1793