Klukisporites variegatus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 108 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 56 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 9 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 9 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 9 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 9 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 9 occurrences187–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–178 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences178–173 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences125–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences98–93 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences85–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–58 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences58–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences174.7 Mya66 Mya187 Mya53 Mya

9 occurrences of Klukisporites variegatus 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

9 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

7 formations

Raritan — 40.00°N, 74.00°WNomogen — 43.53°N, 111.73°EOriente — 7.00°S, 75.00°WKachaike — 49.00°S, 72.00°WCerro Bororó — 43.67°S, 67.75°WLoncoche — 36.53°S, 69.82°WHelvetiafjellet — 78.10°N, 13.93°E

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The named rock units Klukisporites variegatus 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.

Klukisporites variegatus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Klukisporites variegatus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

295 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Klukisporites 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

8 references

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

No 3D scan of Klukisporites variegatus 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 itKlukisporites through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Couper 1958