Cruciptera simsonii
No picture of Cruciptera simsonii 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 Cruciptera simsonii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CrucipteraPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Cruciptera simsonii 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Cruciptera simsonii 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 simsonii and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cruciptera simsonii and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Cimbicidae1 site
- Eorpa ypsipeda1 site
- Florissantia speirii1 site
- Ichneumonidae1 site
- Ithyceroides klondikensis1 site
- Koelreuteria1 site
- Koelreuteria dilcheri1 site
- Loxopteroides weeksae1 site
- Nordenskioldia1 site
- Oryctoantiquus borealis1 site
- Rhus mixta1 site
- Trochodendron1 site
- Trochodendron nastae1 site
- Ulmus chuchuanus1 site
- Ulmus okanaganensis1 site
- Zizyphoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cruciptera simsonii, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Cruciptera, a new Juglandaceous winged fruit from the Eocene and Oligocene of western North America2
- 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 4 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 simsonii 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 Cruciptera simsonii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cruciptera simsonii 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 itCruciptera through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brown 1940)