Cosmosporites elegans

No picture of Cosmosporites elegans was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cosmosporites elegans 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. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 7 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 7 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 7 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 7 occurrencesLate Cretaceous176–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–165 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences165–162 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences160–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–140 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154.8 Mya106.3 Mya176 Mya92 Mya

7 occurrences of Cosmosporites elegans 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

7 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

3 formations

Khatatba — 30.99°N, 27.77°EMasajid — 30.99°N, 27.77°EBurg El-Arab — 30.99°N, 27.77°E

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The named rock units Cosmosporites elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cosmosporites elegans and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Cosmosporites elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

80 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Cosmosporites elegans, 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

2 references

Each of the 7 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 Cosmosporites elegans was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

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

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Cosmosporites elegans 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.