Leptolepidites densus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptolepiditesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
2 occurrences of Leptolepidites densus on record. 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous50%
- Eocene50%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Leptolepidites densus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Baculatisporites comaumensis2 sites
- Cyatheacidites annulatus2 sites
- Cyathidites minor2 sites
- Ailanthipites mulleri1 site
- Araucariacites australis1 site
- Baculatisporites turbioensis1 site
- Biretisporites1 site
- Biretisporites crassilabratus1 site
- Bombacacidites1 site
- Camarozonosporites ambigens1 site
- Ceratosporites equalis1 site
- Cingutriletes australis1 site
- Clavatipollenites hughesii1 site
- Clavifera triplex1 site
- Corrugatisporites argentinus1 site
- Crybelosporites1 site
- Cunoniaceae1 site
- Cyathidites1 site
- Cycadopites nitidus1 site
- Deltoidospora1 site
- Dictyophyllidites concavus1 site
- Echinosporis1 site
- Ephedripites notensis1 site
- Ericipites scabratus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Leptolepidites densus, 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- Palynology of the Lower Lefipan Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Barranca de Los Perros,Chubut Province, Argentina. Part I. Cryptogam Spores and Gymnosperm Pollen1
- Esporas de la Formación Río Turbio (Eoceno), Provincia de Santa Cruz1
Each of the 2 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.
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No picture of Leptolepidites densus 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 Leptolepidites densus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leptolepidites densus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Archangelsky 1972