Ephedripites ovalis
No picture of Ephedripites ovalis 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 Ephedripites ovalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EphedripitesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 93.9 Mya.
10 occurrences of Ephedripites ovalis 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
10 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Ephedripites ovalis 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.
Ephedripites ovalis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Ephedripites ovalis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
94 taxa- Classopollis classoides10 sites
- Inaperturopollenites10 sites
- Cicatricosisporites orbiculatus9 sites
- Concavisporites9 sites
- Cyathidites minor9 sites
- Cyathldites australis9 sites
- Deltoidospora diaphana9 sites
- Eucommiidites9 sites
- Psilamonocolpites9 sites
- Tricolpites9 sites
- Araucariacites australis8 sites
- Brenneripollis8 sites
- Cicatricosisporites hughesii8 sites
- Circulina parva8 sites
- Dictyophyllidites harrisii8 sites
- Taxodiaceapollenites hiatus8 sites
- Afropollis jardinus7 sites
- Balmeisporites holodictyus7 sites
- Cicatricosisporites australiensis7 sites
- Cicatricosisporites hallei7 sites
- Clavatipollenites hughesii7 sites
- Concavissimisporites punctatus7 sites
- Cycadopites7 sites
- Murospora7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Ephedripites ovalis, 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
2 references- Aptian-Turonian palynology of the Ghazalat-1 well (GTX-1), Qattara Depression, Egypt9
- Mid-Cretaceous plat microfossils from the northern part of the Western Desert of Egypt1
Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ephedripites ovalis 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 Ephedripites ovalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ephedripites ovalis 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 itEphedripites through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Müller 1968