Clavatosporis varians
No picture of Clavatosporis varians 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 Clavatosporis varians, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClavatosporisPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Clavatosporis varians 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
5 occurrences- Late Cretaceous72%
- Paleocene28%
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 Clavatosporis varians has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Clavatosporis varians and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Clavatosporis varians and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
203 taxa- Acylomurus silviae5 sites
- Azolla coloniensis5 sites
- Botryococcus5 sites
- Camarozonosporites ambigens5 sites
- Cibotiidites auriculatus5 sites
- Cibotiumspora jurienensis5 sites
- Cicatricosisporites5 sites
- Cingutriletes australis5 sites
- Clavifera triplex5 sites
- Cyatheacidites annulatus5 sites
- Cyathidites australis5 sites
- Cyathidites concavus5 sites
- Cyathidites minor5 sites
- Cyathidites patagonicus5 sites
- Dictyophyllidites harrisii5 sites
- Foraminisporis dailyi5 sites
- Ginginodinium5 sites
- Gleicheniidites senonicus5 sites
- Klukisporites pseudoreticulatus5 sites
- Laevigatosporites ovatus5 sites
- Lecaniella margostriata5 sites
- Microreticulatisporites patagonicus5 sites
- Molaspora lobata5 sites
- Molaspora reticulata5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Clavatosporis varians, 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 5 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. 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 Clavatosporis varians 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 Clavatosporis varians, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Clavatosporis varians 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 itClavatosporis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. De Benedetti et al. 2024