Macginitiea gracilis

Macginitiea gracilis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 9.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 57.5 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 60.9 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 4 of 12 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 8 of 12 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 12 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57.5 Mya48.07 Mya61.4 Mya33.4 Mya

12 occurrences of Macginitiea gracilis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

12 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

Fort Union — 42.28°N, 108.11°WFort Union — 41.59°N, 109.25°WWasatch — 41.93°N, 108.00°WKlondike Mountain — 48.65°N, 118.73°WAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.57°W

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The named rock units Macginitiea gracilis 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.

Macginitiea gracilis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Macginitiea gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

144 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Macginitiea gracilis, 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

5 references

Each of the 12 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 content1

Picture of Macginitiea gracilis

Credit
Kevmin
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Macginitiea gracilis 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 itMacginitiea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wolfe and Wehr 1987