Ceratosporites

No picture of Ceratosporites 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 Ceratosporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SelaginellalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Environment
freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Lycopodiophyta

Time the record covers

At least 126 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 106 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 106 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 106 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 106 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 35 of 106 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 53 of 106 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 16 of 106 occurrences202–197 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences197–193 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences164–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–135 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–121 Mya — about 2 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 6 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 7 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 8 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 8 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 10 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 7 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 19 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 21 occurrences64–59 Mya — about 8 occurrences192.9 Mya66 Mya202 Mya59 Mya

106 occurrences of Ceratosporites 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

106 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

32 formations

Monte Chico — 51.59°S, 72.41°WMonte Chico — 51.18°S, 72.29°WBathurst Island — 11.79°S, 130.23°EBathurst Island — 11.78°S, 130.35°ETambo — 27.34°S, 135.72°ETambo — 29.13°S, 140.88°EChorrillo — 50.50°S, 72.56°WLefipán — 42.58°S, 69.98°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.83°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.31°S, 56.88°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.33°S, 56.85°WRunnymede — 37.37°S, 140.90°ERio Mayer — 49.06°S, 72.14°WRio Mayer — 48.82°S, 72.12°WKachaike — 49.06°S, 72.14°WKachaike — 48.82°S, 72.12°WKachaike — 49.00°S, 72.00°WSpringhill — 52.77°S, 68.70°WSalamanca — 45.81°S, 69.06°WSalamanca — 45.91°S, 69.21°WLago Colhué Huapi — 45.62°S, 68.43°WLa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WLa Colonia — 42.97°S, 67.54°WPunta del Barco — 48.32°S, 69.12°WBaqueró — 48.52°S, 69.17°WKotick Point — 64.00°S, 58.36°WKotick Point — 64.01°S, 58.35°WLa Anita — 50.37°S, 72.24°WLa Anita — 49.81°S, 72.18°WScollard — 51.93°N, 112.83°WPiedra Clavada — 49.53°S, 71.48°WLa Irene — 50.38°S, 72.23°WSpringill — 52.77°S, 68.70°WSanta Marta — 63.88°S, 57.96°WCodó — 4.52°S, 44.03°WAllen — 37.92°S, 68.48°W

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The named rock units Ceratosporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceratosporites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

656 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Ceratosporites, 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

34 references

Each of the 106 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. 22 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 Ceratosporites 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 Ceratosporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ceratosporites 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cookson and Dettmann 1958