Cruciptera
No picture of Cruciptera 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 Cruciptera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- JuglandaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
7 occurrences of Cruciptera on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Cruciptera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cruciptera and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cruciptera and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Acer2 sites
- Alnus2 sites
- Catalpa2 sites
- Cinnamomophyllum2 sites
- Craigia2 sites
- Decodon2 sites
- Florissantia speirii2 sites
- Hydrangea2 sites
- Mahonia2 sites
- Palaeocarya2 sites
- Platanus2 sites
- Quercus2 sites
- Ulmus2 sites
- Abies1 site
- Acer cranei1 site
- Acer glabroides1 site
- Ailanthus1 site
- Angiospermae1 site
- Asterocarpinus perplexans1 site
- Beckerosperma ovalicarpa1 site
- Beckerospermum sp.1 site
- Carya1 site
- Cedrela1 site
- Cedrelospermum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cruciptera, 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
5 references- The Oligocene Bridge Creek flora of the John Day Formation, Oregon2
- Cruciptera, a new Juglandaceous winged fruit from the Eocene and Oligocene of western North America2
- Late Eocene fossil plants of the John Day Formation, Wheeler County, Oregon1
- Fruits and seeds of the Middle Eocene Nut Beds Flora, Clarno Formation, Oregon1
- New species and changes of name in some American fossil floras1
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. 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 Cruciptera 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 Cruciptera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cruciptera 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itJuglandaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Manchester 1991