Balmeisporites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 173 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 173 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 173 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 64 of 173 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 108 of 173 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 173 occurrences177–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences173–169 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences169–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–157 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–138 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–130 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 5 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 4 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 4 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 8 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 11 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 21 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 34 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 47 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 11 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–79 Mya — about 6 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 6 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 6 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 6 occurrences67–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125.77 Mya72.2 Mya177 Mya59 Mya

173 occurrences of Balmeisporites 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

173 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

24 formations

Dunvegan — 55.94°N, 119.94°WDunvegan — 55.92°N, 118.59°WDunvegan — 55.22°N, 119.17°WDunvegan — 55.27°N, 118.63°WDunvegan — 55.78°N, 118.90°WBrazeau — 52.72°N, 116.00°WShaftesbury — 56.13°N, 120.05°WShaftesbury — 55.22°N, 119.17°WShaftesbury — 55.27°N, 118.63°WShaftesbury — 55.78°N, 118.90°WKaskapau — 55.92°N, 118.59°WKaskapau — 55.78°N, 118.90°WRunnymede — 37.37°S, 140.90°EHassel — 79.79°N, 85.37°WBurg El-Arab — 30.99°N, 27.77°ESix Hills — 25.00°N, 28.50°ESix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.00°ESix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.25°ETambo — 27.34°S, 135.72°ETambo — 29.13°S, 140.88°EBahariya — 30.99°N, 27.77°EBahariya — 29.00°N, 29.00°EKharita — 29.00°N, 29.00°EPeace River — 56.70°N, 117.20°WPeace River — 56.25°N, 117.30°WKachaike — 49.15°S, 72.07°WKachaike — 48.82°S, 72.12°WKachaike — 48.85°S, 72.03°WAlamein — 29.00°N, 29.00°EBathurst Island — 11.78°S, 130.35°EBathurst Island — 11.79°S, 130.23°EChristopher — 79.79°N, 85.37°WScollard — 52.72°N, 116.00°WRaritan — 40.00°N, 74.00°WEumeralla — 38.77°S, 143.25°EOriente — 7.00°S, 75.00°WSt. Mary River — 49.92°N, 112.99°WDakota — 42.50°N, 96.40°WAgua Caliente — 7.21°S, 74.95°WLa Anita — 49.81°S, 72.18°W

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The named rock units Balmeisporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Balmeisporites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Balmeisporites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

359 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 72 sites for Balmeisporites, 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

22 references

Each of the 173 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. 10 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 Balmeisporites 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 Balmeisporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Balmeisporites 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 itAraucariaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cookson and Dettmann 1958