Biretisporites
Searched as Biretisporites vallatus. The Paleobiology Database treats Biretisporites as the accepted name.
No picture of Biretisporites 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 Biretisporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolypodiopsidaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Biretisporites on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
1 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Biretisporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Biretisporites and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Biretisporites and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
1,242 taxa- Araucariacites australis72 sites
- Cyathidites minor71 sites
- Gleicheniidites senonicus60 sites
- Classopollis56 sites
- Baculatisporites comaumensis53 sites
- Laevigatosporites ovatus53 sites
- Cyatheacidites annulatus47 sites
- Cyathidites australis47 sites
- Microcachryidites antarcticus46 sites
- Phyllocladidites mawsonii46 sites
- Cycadopites45 sites
- Cicatricosisporites43 sites
- Peninsulapollis gillii43 sites
- Podocarpidites ellipticus43 sites
- Liliacidites variegatus42 sites
- Tricolpites reticulatus42 sites
- Botryococcus40 sites
- Dinoflagellata39 sites
- Arecipites minutiscabratus37 sites
- Ephedripites33 sites
- Lygistepollenites florinii33 sites
- Podocarpidites elegans33 sites
- Trilites parvallatus33 sites
- Clavifera triplex32 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 141 sites for Biretisporites, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Biretisporites 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 Biretisporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Biretisporites 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 itPolypodiopsida through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Delcourt et al. 1963