Contignisporites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PteridaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 76 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 26 of 76 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 44 of 76 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 76 occurrencesLate Cretaceous163–160 Mya — about 2 occurrences160–157 Mya — about 4 occurrences157–154 Mya — about 4 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 4 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 4 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 4 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 3 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences139–135 Mya — about 1 occurrence135–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–123 Mya — about 4 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 4 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 5 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 5 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 4 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 4 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 4 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 4 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143.1 Mya83.6 Mya163 Mya70 Mya

76 occurrences of Contignisporites on record, most of them in the Early 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

76 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

19 formations

Katrol — 23.30°N, 69.66°EKatrol — 23.27°N, 69.65°EWhisky Bay — 63.87°S, 58.08°WWhisky Bay — 63.83°S, 58.13°WJabalpur — 23.11°N, 80.13°EBhuj — 23.32°N, 69.77°EBhuj — 23.60°N, 69.00°EKachaike — 48.82°S, 72.12°WKachaike — 49.00°S, 72.00°WSix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.25°EAlamein — 29.00°N, 29.00°EKharita — 29.00°N, 29.00°EPunta del Barco — 48.32°S, 69.12°WTambo — 27.34°S, 135.72°ETambo — 29.13°S, 140.88°EBahariya — 29.00°N, 29.00°EBentiu — 11.03°N, 27.74°ESpringhill — 52.77°S, 68.70°WAbu Gabra — 11.03°N, 27.74°ECalcaires récifaux supérieurs — 38.78°N, 9.23°WWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.35°WSpringill — 52.77°S, 68.70°WBaqueró — 48.52°S, 69.17°WRunnymede — 37.37°S, 140.90°E

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The named rock units Contignisporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Contignisporites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Contignisporites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

561 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Contignisporites, 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

16 references

Each of the 76 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. 4 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 Contignisporites 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 Contignisporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Contignisporites was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPteridaceae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dettmann 1963