Elaterosporites protensus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 40 of 65 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 25 of 65 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 65 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 8 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 8 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 8 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 5 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 4 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 4 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 5 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 7 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 7 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 6 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110.1 Mya93.9 Mya123 Mya65 Mya

65 occurrences of Elaterosporites protensus 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

65 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

10 formations

Apollonian — 4.98°N, 3.02°WAgua Doce — 3.69°S, 44.56°WQueimadas — 3.69°S, 44.56°WPreguicas — 3.69°S, 44.56°WRaya — 7.19°S, 74.95°WRaya — 7.19°S, 74.95°WBahariya — 29.86°N, 28.74°EOriente — 7.00°S, 75.00°WBima Sandstone — 9.83°N, 10.90°EAgua Caliente — 7.20°S, 74.95°WKharita — 29.86°N, 28.74°E

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The named rock units Elaterosporites protensus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elaterosporites protensus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

142 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Elaterosporites protensus, 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

9 references

Each of the 65 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 Elaterosporites protensus 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 protensus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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

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