Azollopsis

Searched as Azollopsis tomentosa. The Paleobiology Database treats Azollopsis as the accepted name.

No picture of Azollopsis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Azollopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 51.1 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 8 of 12 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 12 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 12 occurrencesEocene73–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66 Mya56 Mya72.7 Mya50.6 Mya

12 occurrences of Azollopsis on record. 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

12 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

7 formations

La Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WLa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.75°WLa Colonia — 43.02°S, 67.66°WLa Colonia — 42.97°S, 67.54°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.12°N, 113.34°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.54°N, 112.68°WFox Hills Sandstone — 46.88°N, 104.76°WGolden Valley — 46.87°N, 102.99°WBattle — 51.37°N, 112.82°WWhitemud — 51.89°N, 112.97°WCerro Bororó — 43.67°S, 67.75°W

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The named rock units Azollopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

368 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Azollopsis, 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

6 references

Each of the 12 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

Media content0

No picture of Azollopsis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Azollopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Azollopsis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAzollaceae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1968