Longapertites marginatus

No picture of Longapertites marginatus 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 Longapertites marginatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LongapertitesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEocene85–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66 Mya48.07 Mya84.5 Mya36.8 Mya

2 occurrences of Longapertites marginatus 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

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

1 formation

Gombe — 10.12°N, 10.71°E

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The named rock units Longapertites marginatus 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.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Longapertites marginatus, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 references

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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Longapertites marginatus 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 Longapertites marginatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Longapertites marginatus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. van Hoeken-Klinkenberg 1964