Asplenites
No picture of Asplenites was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Asplenites firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlantaePBDB
Time the record covers
At least 70 million years on record.
The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 66 Mya.
4 occurrences of Asplenites 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
4 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
2 formations
- Lance Formation2
- Comox Formation · Nanaimo Group1
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The named rock units Asplenites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Asplenites and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Asplenites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Menispermites3 sites
- Cladophlebis2 sites
- Equisetum2 sites
- Fraxinus2 sites
- Laurophyllum2 sites
- Phyllites2 sites
- Pistia corrugata2 sites
- Quercophyllum2 sites
- Trapa microphylla2 sites
- Typha2 sites
- Amentotaxus1 site
- Anona robusta1 site
- Araucarites1 site
- Arthrotaxites ungeri1 site
- Artocarpus1 site
- Baiera1 site
- Bauhinia gigantea1 site
- Calycites1 site
- Canna magnifolia1 site
- Carpites1 site
- Cercidiphyllum1 site
- Chrysobalanus1 site
- Cissus marginata1 site
- Cladophlebis browniana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Asplenites, 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
3 references- Upper Cretaceous floras of the Rocky Mountain region; Flora of the Lance Formation at its type locality, Niobrara County, Wyoming2
- Flora of the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group of Vancouver Island, British Columbia1
- Some Mesozoic plant-bearing deposits in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego and their floras1
Each of the 4 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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No picture of Asplenites was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Asplenites firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Asplenites 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 itPlantae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Colla 1829