Lygistepollenites balmei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LygistepollenitesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 56 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
17 occurrences of Lygistepollenites balmei on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
17 occurrences- Late Cretaceous29%
- Paleocene65%
- Eocene6%
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
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The named rock units Lygistepollenites balmei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lygistepollenites balmei and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Lygistepollenites balmei and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
131 taxa- Ilexpollenites12 sites
- Podocarpidites12 sites
- Proteacidites12 sites
- Tricolpites12 sites
- Araucariacites australis11 sites
- Gleicheniidites11 sites
- Nothofagidites11 sites
- Phyllocladidites11 sites
- Microcachryidites antarcticus10 sites
- Phyllocladidites mawsonii10 sites
- Periporopollenites9 sites
- Trichotomosulcites subgranulatus9 sites
- Basopollis8 sites
- Lygistepollenites florinii8 sites
- Nothofagidites flemingii8 sites
- Trilites tuberculiformis8 sites
- Laevigatosporites ovatus7 sites
- Nothofagidites endurus7 sites
- Polycolpites langstonii7 sites
- Cyathidites minor6 sites
- Nothofagidites brachyspinulosus6 sites
- Peromonolites6 sites
- Podocarpidites ellipticus6 sites
- Polypodiisporites6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Lygistepollenites balmei, 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- Early Tertiary palaeogeography, landform evolution, and palaeoclimates of the Southern Monaro, N.S.W., Australia11
- Cretaceous palynomorphs from the James Ross Island area, Antarctica - A pilot Study4
- Polar forests on the edge of extinction: what does the fossil spore and pollen evidence from East Antarctica say?.1
- Palynology of the Lachman Crags Member, Santa Marta Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of north-west James Ross Island1
Each of the 17 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 Lygistepollenites balmei 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 Lygistepollenites balmei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lygistepollenites balmei 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 itLygistepollenites through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stover and Evans 1973