Beckettia
No picture of Beckettia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Beckettia itself, so it was not used. 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 Beckettia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MastixiaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Beckettia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Beckettia 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.
Beckettia and its relatives
EoceneWhere Beckettia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
182 taxa- Ampelopsis2 sites
- Abdounia beaugei1 site
- Abdounia minutissima1 site
- Abdounia recticona1 site
- Acanthocybium proosti1 site
- Acipenser1 site
- Aenigmavis sapea1 site
- Aetobatus irregularis1 site
- Aetomylaeus1 site
- Aetomylaeus dixoni1 site
- Aetomylaeus striatus1 site
- Aglyptorhynchus venablesi1 site
- Ailanthus confucii1 site
- Albula eppsi1 site
- Albula oweni1 site
- Amia1 site
- Angiospermae1 site
- Anomotodon novus1 site
- Anoxypristis1 site
- Archaeomanta melenhorsti1 site
- Arius1 site
- Aves1 site
- Berchemia mellerae1 site
- Bolcyrus formosissimus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Beckettia, 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- Fossil fruits and seeds of the Middle Eocene Messel biota, Germany1
- Fossil fruit and seed flora from the early Eocene Fisher/Sullivan site1
- Chandler, 19611
Each of the 3 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 Beckettia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Beckettia itself, so it was not used.
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 Beckettia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Beckettia 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 itMastixiaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reid and Chandler 1933