Aquilapollenites
Searched as Aquilapollenites unicus. The Paleobiology Database treats Aquilapollenites as the accepted name.
No picture of Aquilapollenites 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 Aquilapollenites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnthophytaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
26 occurrences of Aquilapollenites on record, most of them in the Late 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
26 occurrences- Late Cretaceous71%
- Paleocene29%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Aquilapollenites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aquilapollenites and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Aquilapollenites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
474 taxa- Wodehouseia spinata45 sites
- Laevigatosporites43 sites
- Triporopollenites43 sites
- Deltoidospora37 sites
- Taxodiaceaepollenites37 sites
- Pityosporites36 sites
- Tricolpites36 sites
- Gleicheniidites35 sites
- Cyathidites32 sites
- Cycadopites32 sites
- Ulmipollenites krempii31 sites
- Liliacidites29 sites
- Osmundacidites29 sites
- Kurtzipites trispissatus28 sites
- Penetetrapites28 sites
- Ghoshispora27 sites
- Schizophacus sp.27 sites
- Stereisporites27 sites
- Azolla26 sites
- Reticuloidosporites26 sites
- Arecipites25 sites
- Kurtzipites circularis25 sites
- Erdtmanipollis24 sites
- Pandaniidites typicus24 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Aquilapollenites, 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
2 references- Palynological dating of Upper Cretaceous to middle Eocene strata in the Sagavanirktok and Canning formations, North Slope of Alaska20
- Palynomorph biostratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous to Eocene samples from the Sagavanirktok Formation in its type region, North Slope of Alaska6
Each of the 26 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Aquilapollenites 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 Aquilapollenites, 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 itAnthophyta through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rouse 1957