Arcellites
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MarsilealesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 49 million years on record.
The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 66 Mya.
239 occurrences of Arcellites 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
239 occurrencesThese 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
29 formations
- Dunvegan Formation46
- Dakota Formation35
- Eumeralla Formation · Otway Group28
- Kachaike Formation14
- Shaftesbury Formation · Fort St. John Group12
- Kaskapau Formation · Smoky Group11
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The named rock units Arcellites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Arcellites and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Arcellites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
178 taxa- Minerisporites48 sites
- Paxillitriletes39 sites
- Spermatites38 sites
- Bacutriletes18 sites
- Costatheca16 sites
- Erlansonisporites16 sites
- Molaspora lobata14 sites
- Balmeisporites holodictyus12 sites
- Ariadnaesporites10 sites
- Bacutriletes guttula10 sites
- Maexisporites9 sites
- Plantae9 sites
- Verrutriletes9 sites
- Henrisporites angustus8 sites
- Striatriletes7 sites
- Tenellisporites7 sites
- Triletes7 sites
- Echitriletes6 sites
- Hughesisporites6 sites
- Molaspora6 sites
- Balmeisporites glenelgensis5 sites
- Diaspididae4 sites
- Leiosphaeridia4 sites
- Minerisporites marginatus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 104 sites for Arcellites, 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
24 references- Cenomanian microfloras of the Peace River area, northwestern Alberta69
- Megaspores and other dispersed plant remains from the Dakota Formation (Cenomanian) of Kansas, U.S.A.33
- Early Cretaceous megaspore assemblages from southeastern Australia28
- Microflora of the Lower Cretaceous Mannville Group20
- Early Cretaceous megaspores from the Jalainor Group of Northeast Inner Mongolia, P. R. China14
- Jurassic and Cretaceous Megaspores14
- Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Cretaceous megaspores from Patagonia, Argentina8
- Lower Cretaceous Microfloras of the Peace River area, northwestern Alberta8
- The Cretaceous megaspore genus Arcellites Miner8
- Dos nuevas especies de megasporas de la Formacion Kachaike, Cretacico Inferior de Santa Cruz, Argentina6
- New plant microfossils from the Raritan Formation (Cretaceous) in New Jersey6
- Megaspore assemblages in the Cretaceous of Minnesota5
Each of the 239 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. 12 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
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No picture of Arcellites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Arcellites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Arcellites 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 itMarsileales through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miner 1935