Minerisporites marginatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MinerisporitesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Environment
freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Lycopodiophyta

Time the record covers

At least 57 million years on record.

The record covers at least 141 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 21 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 19 of 21 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 21 occurrencesLate Cretaceous145–142 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 1 occurrence135–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–130 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141 Mya83.6 Mya145 Mya71 Mya

21 occurrences of Minerisporites marginatus 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

21 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

11 formations

Christopher (?) — 73.58°N, 118.33°WChristopher (?) — 73.37°N, 118.90°WChristopher (?) — 73.47°N, 118.13°WTunbridge Wells Sand — 50.01°N, 0.14°WTunbridge Wells Sand — 51.01°N, 0.14°WLoon River — 57.10°N, 117.20°WPeace River — 56.70°N, 117.20°WGrand Rapids — 53.73°N, 112.11°WChristopher — 74.52°N, 121.17°WDakota — 38.73°N, 98.23°WBrazeau — 52.72°N, 116.00°WRobbedale — 55.17°N, 15.00°ERabekke — 55.17°N, 15.00°EKachaike — 49.15°S, 72.07°W

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The named rock units Minerisporites marginatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Minerisporites marginatus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Minerisporites marginatus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

28 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Minerisporites marginatus, 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

10 references

Each of the 21 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 Minerisporites 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 Minerisporites marginatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Minerisporites marginatus 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 itMinerisporites through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Potonie 1956