Dennstaedtia fremonti
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DennstaedtiaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 48 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Dennstaedtia fremonti 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
6 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Dennstaedtia fremonti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dennstaedtia fremonti and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Dennstaedtia fremonti and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Pteridopsida4 sites
- Osmunda occidentale3 sites
- Anemia fremonti2 sites
- Cupressacae indet.1 site
- Dewalquea pulchella1 site
- Dicotyledoneae1 site
- Dryopteris coloradensis1 site
- Equisetum1 site
- Microtaenia variabilis1 site
- Tempskya1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Dennstaedtia fremonti, 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- Denver Museum of Nature & Science archival records of Kirk Johnson fieldwork in Cretaceous rocks of the Rocky Mountain region.4
- Geology of the Garns Mountain Quadrangle Bonneville, Madison, and Teton Counties, Idaho1
- The flora of the Frontier Formation1
Each of the 6 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
Media content1
Picture of Dennstaedtia fremonti
- Source
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- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dennstaedtia fremonti 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 itDennstaedtia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1843)