Molaspora
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MarsileaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 41 million years on record.
The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
64 occurrences of Molaspora on record, most of them in the Late 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
64 occurrencesThese 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
14 formations
- Dakota Formation19
- Dunvegan Formation12
- La Colonia Formation12
- "Aachenian" Formation3
- Windrow Formation3
- Eureka Sound Formation3
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The named rock units Molaspora 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.
Molaspora and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Molaspora and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
249 taxa- Minerisporites19 sites
- Spermatites19 sites
- Arcellites disciformis14 sites
- Paxillitriletes13 sites
- Bacutriletes11 sites
- Costatheca10 sites
- Erlansonisporites7 sites
- Plantae6 sites
- Acylomurus silviae5 sites
- Azolla coloniensis5 sites
- Botryococcus5 sites
- Camarozonosporites ambigens5 sites
- Cibotiidites auriculatus5 sites
- Cibotiumspora jurienensis5 sites
- Cicatricosisporites5 sites
- Cingutriletes australis5 sites
- Clavatosporis varians5 sites
- Clavifera triplex5 sites
- Cyatheacidites annulatus5 sites
- Cyathidites australis5 sites
- Cyathidites concavus5 sites
- Cyathidites minor5 sites
- Cyathidites patagonicus5 sites
- Dictyophyllidites harrisii5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Molaspora, 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
18 references- Megaspores and other dispersed plant remains from the Dakota Formation (Cenomanian) of Kansas, U.S.A.17
- Cenomanian microfloras of the Peace River area, northwestern Alberta12
- Spores from the K–Pg boundary of the La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina6
- Jurassic and Cretaceous Megaspores5
- Water fern spores (Salviniales) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina4
- Revision of S J Dijkstra's Late Cretaceous megaspore and other plant microfossils from Limburg, the Netherlands4
- Megaspore assemblages in the Cretaceous of Minnesota3
- Early Cretaceous megaspore assemblages from southeastern Australia2
- Megaspores and other palynomorphs of the Brazeau Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Nordegg Area, Alberta2
- Salviniales from the Late Cretaceous of the Golfo San Jorge Basin1
- Regnellidium (Salviniales, Marsileaceae) macrofossils and associated spores from the Late Cretaceous of South America1
- New marsileaceous fossils from the Late Cretaceous of South America and a reevaluation of Marsileaceaephyllum1
Each of the 64 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Molaspora 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 Molaspora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Molaspora 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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What may have been alongside itMarsileaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1963