Ariadnaesporites
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SalviniaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 28 million years on record.
The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 66 Mya.
93 occurrences of Ariadnaesporites 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
93 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
16 formations
- Dunvegan Formation35
- Kaskapau Formation · Smoky Group26
- Windrow Formation5
- Brazeau Formation4
- Shaftesbury Formation · Fort St. John Group3
- Dakota Formation3
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The named rock units Ariadnaesporites 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.
Ariadnaesporites and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ariadnaesporites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
251 taxa- Arcellites disciformis10 sites
- Bacutriletes7 sites
- Minerisporites7 sites
- Paxillitriletes6 sites
- Spermatites6 sites
- Erlansonisporites5 sites
- Gleicheniidites senonicus4 sites
- Araucariacites australis3 sites
- Arcellites reticulatus3 sites
- Cicatricosisporites3 sites
- Costatheca3 sites
- Cyathidites australis3 sites
- Cyathidites minor3 sites
- Microcachryidites antarcticus3 sites
- Molaspora lobata3 sites
- Phyllocladidites mawsonii3 sites
- Proteacidites scaboratus3 sites
- Tenellisporites3 sites
- Tubulifloridites lilliei3 sites
- Zlivisporis reticulatus3 sites
- Azolla2 sites
- Baculatisporites comaumensis2 sites
- Balmeisporites holodictyus2 sites
- Botryococcus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Ariadnaesporites, 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
18 references- Cenomanian microfloras of the Peace River area, northwestern Alberta64
- Jurassic and Cretaceous Megaspores4
- Megaspore assemblages in the Cretaceous of Minnesota4
- Megaspores and other dispersed plant remains from the Dakota Formation (Cenomanian) of Kansas, U.S.A.3
- Revision of S J Dijkstra's Late Cretaceous megaspore and other plant microfossils from Limburg, the Netherlands2
- Megaspores and other palynomorphs of the Brazeau Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Nordegg Area, Alberta2
- Heterospory in Ariadnaesporites2
- Two new species of Ariadnaesporites2
- Spores from the K–Pg boundary of the La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina1
- A Maastrichtian terrestrial palaeoenvironment close to the K/Pg boundary in the Golfo San Jorge basin, Patagonia, Argentina1
- Late Cretaceous spore-pollen zonation of the Central African Rift System (CARS), Kaikang Trough, Muglad Basin, South Sudan: angiosperm spread and links to the Elaterates Province1
- First report of a Maastrichtian palynoflora from the Golfo San Jorge Basin, central Patagonia, Argentina1
Each of the 93 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. 6 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 content0
No picture of Ariadnaesporites 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 Ariadnaesporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ariadnaesporites 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSalviniaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Potonié 1956