Ischyosporites variegatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IschyosporitesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 81 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 8 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 8 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 8 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 8 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 8 occurrences171–166 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences166–162 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–87 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences87–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences64–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165.3 Mya83.6 Mya171 Mya31 Mya

8 occurrences of Ischyosporites variegatus 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

8 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

4 formations

Taratu — 43.18°S, 171.78°EAgua Caliente — 7.21°S, 74.95°WAnoual — 32.52°N, 3.11°WColi Toro — 41.24°S, 69.14°W

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The named rock units Ischyosporites variegatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ischyosporites variegatus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Ischyosporites variegatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

109 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ischyosporites variegatus, 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

4 references

Each of the 8 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 content0

No picture of Ischyosporites variegatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ischyosporites variegatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itIschyosporites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

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