Carpites

No picture of Carpites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Carpites 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
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Time the record covers

At least 87 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 83 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 18 of 83 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 83 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 13 of 83 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 39 of 83 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 83 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 83 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–86 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences86–82 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 8 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 4 occurrences39–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 12 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 14 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 14 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–7.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.0–3.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences110.1 Mya23.04 Mya122 Mya3 Mya

83 occurrences of Carpites on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

83 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

15 formations

Renova — 45.50°N, 112.50°WLatah — 47.64°N, 117.45°WLatah — 47.70°N, 116.75°WLatah — 47.65°N, 117.39°WHell Creek — 46.35°N, 103.87°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.01°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.97°WHell Creek — 46.39°N, 103.94°WLance — 43.08°N, 104.63°WKirtland — 36.27°N, 108.24°WCiano — 3.87°S, 80.07°WFrenchman — 49.52°N, 108.82°WIone — 39.31°N, 120.96°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WGreen River — 39.78°N, 107.87°WDunvegan — 56.22°N, 120.12°WCretaceous — 43.21°N, 104.63°WComox — 49.75°N, 125.00°WWulonggu — 47.52°N, 87.08°ETumenzi — 43.32°N, 128.16°E

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The named rock units Carpites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carpites and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Carpites and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

560 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Carpites, 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

15 references

Each of the 83 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. 3 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

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No picture of Carpites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Carpites 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.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schimper 1874