Heterocolpites
No picture of Heterocolpites 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 Heterocolpites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MyrtalesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
28 occurrences of Heterocolpites on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
28 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Heterocolpites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heterocolpites and its relatives
EoceneWhere Heterocolpites and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
99 taxa- Verrucatosporites20 sites
- Deltoidospora19 sites
- Laevigatosporites19 sites
- Sapotaceoidaepollenites19 sites
- Proxapertites operculatus18 sites
- Acrostichum17 sites
- Cupuliferoipollenites17 sites
- Euphorbiaceae17 sites
- Longapertites17 sites
- Verrucatosporites usmensis17 sites
- Cupanieidites16 sites
- Discoidites16 sites
- Rubiaceae16 sites
- Dicolpopollis15 sites
- Campnosperma14 sites
- Palaquium14 sites
- Proxapertites14 sites
- Saxosporis14 sites
- Selaginella14 sites
- Palmaepollenites kutchensis13 sites
- Pinuspollenites13 sites
- Anthocerisporis11 sites
- Calophyllumpollenites11 sites
- Restioniidites11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Heterocolpites, 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- A proto-monsoonal climate in the late Eocene of Southeast Asia: evidence from a sedimentary record in central Myanmar22
- A palynological study on the upper Los Cuervos and Mirador formations (Lower and middle Eocene; Tibu area, Colombia)6
Each of the 28 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 Heterocolpites 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 Heterocolpites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heterocolpites 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMyrtales through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Van der Hammen 1956