Elaterosporites

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
elateratePBDB
Sits inside
GnetalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 224 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 224 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 224 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 139 of 224 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 84 of 224 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 224 occurrences177–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences173–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–113 Mya — about 8 occurrences113–109 Mya — about 50 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 44 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 27 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 41 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 47 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence90–86 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110.1 Mya89.8 Mya177 Mya64 Mya

224 occurrences of Elaterosporites 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

224 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

18 formations

Agua Doce — 3.69°S, 44.56°WApollonian — 4.98°N, 3.02°WBima — 12.08°N, 13.14°EQueimadas — 3.69°S, 44.56°WPreguicas — 3.69°S, 44.56°WBahariya — 30.99°N, 27.77°EBahariya — 30.00°N, 28.00°EBahariya — 29.86°N, 28.74°EBurg El-Arab — 30.99°N, 27.77°ERaya — 7.20°S, 74.96°WRaya — 7.19°S, 74.95°WOriente — 7.00°S, 75.00°WKharita — 30.93°N, 26.28°EKharita — 29.86°N, 28.74°EKerrikerri — 12.08°N, 13.14°EAgua Caliente — 7.20°S, 74.95°WBima Sandstone — 9.83°N, 10.90°EDahab — 30.93°N, 26.28°EAbu Roash — 30.00°N, 28.00°EBarreirinhas — 2.75°S, 42.82°WRiachuelo — 10.65°S, 37.04°WBentiu — 9.35°N, 29.13°E

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The named rock units Elaterosporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 66 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elaterosporites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Elaterosporites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

340 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 119 sites for Elaterosporites, 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

21 references

Each of the 224 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. 9 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 Elaterosporites 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 Elaterosporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Elaterosporites 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 itGnetales through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jardiné 1967