Alisporites similis

No picture of Alisporites similis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Alisporites similis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 81 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 28 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 28 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 19 of 28 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 28 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 28 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 1 occurrence167–163 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–156 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–149 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences149–145 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences142–138 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–135 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences121–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–110 Mya — about 3 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 4 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 4 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 3 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165.3 Mya83.6 Mya170 Mya64 Mya

28 occurrences of Alisporites similis on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

28 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

12 formations

Tambo — 27.34°S, 135.72°ETambo — 29.13°S, 140.88°EWhisky Bay — 63.87°S, 58.08°WWhisky Bay — 63.83°S, 58.13°WRunnymede — 37.37°S, 140.90°EKotick Point — 64.00°S, 58.36°WKotick Point — 64.01°S, 58.35°WUkureyskaya — 52.52°N, 116.72°EKachaike — 49.06°S, 72.14°WSanta Marta — 63.88°S, 57.96°WLa Cantera — 33.00°S, 66.50°WBhuj — 23.60°N, 69.00°EKatrol — 23.27°N, 69.65°ETurgin — 51.18°N, 109.08°EEumeralla — 38.85°S, 143.55°E

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The named rock units Alisporites similis 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.

Alisporites similis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Alisporites similis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

318 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Alisporites similis, 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

12 references

Each of the 28 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 content0

No picture of Alisporites similis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Alisporites similis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itAlisporites through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dettmann 1963