Cycadopites nitidus

No picture of Cycadopites nitidus 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 Cycadopites nitidus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 178 million years on record.

The record covers at least 250.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 66 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 20 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 20 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 20 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 20 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 20 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 20 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 20 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 20 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 20 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 20 occurrences256–249 Mya — about 1 occurrence249–243 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences243–236 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences198–191 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences146–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–133 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences133–127 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences127–120 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences120–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–82 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences82–75 Mya — about 3 occurrences75–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence250.8 Mya72.2 Mya256 Mya62 Mya

20 occurrences of Cycadopites nitidus 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

20 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

11 formations

Dinosaur Park — 50.82°N, 111.57°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.48°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.49°WFremouw — 84.00°S, 165.00°EVikinghøgda — 78.00°N, 22.00°EAgua Caliente — 7.21°S, 74.95°WLa Irene — 50.38°S, 72.23°WSpringill — 52.77°S, 68.70°WCodó — 4.52°S, 44.03°WKachaike — 49.00°S, 72.00°WLefipán — 42.58°S, 69.98°WHuincul — 36.53°S, 69.65°WKotick Point — 64.00°S, 58.36°W

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The named rock units Cycadopites nitidus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cycadopites nitidus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cycadopites nitidus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

350 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Cycadopites nitidus, 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

14 references

Each of the 20 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. 2 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

Media content0

No picture of Cycadopites nitidus 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 Cycadopites nitidus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cycadopites nitidus 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 itCycadopites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Jersey 1964