Appendicisporites tricornitatus

Appendicisporites tricornitatus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 9 of 14 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 14 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 1 occurrence108–106 Mya — about 1 occurrence106–104 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences121.4 Mya72.2 Mya127 Mya65 Mya

14 occurrences of Appendicisporites tricornitatus 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

14 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

6 formations

Densuș-Ciula — 45.62°N, 22.78°ERaritan — 40.00°N, 74.00°WMarnes bleues — 44.18°N, 5.90°EGrès à Trigonies — 38.85°N, 9.33°WAgua Caliente — 7.21°S, 74.95°WHuitrin or Rayoso — 38.38°S, 70.03°W

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The named rock units Appendicisporites tricornitatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Appendicisporites tricornitatus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Appendicisporites tricornitatus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

210 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Appendicisporites tricornitatus, 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

9 references

Each of the 14 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

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Picture of Appendicisporites tricornitatus

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No 3D scan of Appendicisporites tricornitatus 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 itAppendicisporites through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weyland and Greifeld 1953