Monolete
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PteridophytaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 254 million years on record.
The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 0 Mya.
48 occurrences of Monolete on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
48 occurrences- Permian6%
- Pleistocene90%
- Holocene4%
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 Monolete has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Monolete and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Monolete and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
383 taxa- Asteraceae44 sites
- Eucalyptus44 sites
- Poaceae44 sites
- Podocarpus44 sites
- Chenopodiaceae42 sites
- Acacia41 sites
- Cyperaceae41 sites
- Dacrydium40 sites
- Dodonaea40 sites
- Araucaria39 sites
- Cunoniaceae39 sites
- Proteaceae39 sites
- Agathis38 sites
- Elaeocarpus38 sites
- Rapanea38 sites
- Myrtaceae37 sites
- Casuarinaceae35 sites
- Cyathea35 sites
- Haloragis35 sites
- Plantago35 sites
- Leptospermum34 sites
- Macaranga34 sites
- Syzygium32 sites
- Myriophyllum31 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Monolete, 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
6 references- Early Pleistocene vegetation change in upland south-eastern Australia22
- A complete pollen record of the last 230 ka from Lynch's Crater, north-eastern Australia13
- A Late Pleistocene and Holocene pollen diagram from Lynch’s Crater, northeastern Queensland, Australia9
- Sedimentology, palynostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of a continental to shallow-marine rift-related succession: Upper Permian of the eastern Southern Alps (Italy)2
- Palynology of the Permian Bolzano Volcanic Complex, Southern Alps, Italie, part 1: miospore preservation, quantitative spore color and quantitative fluorescene microscopy.1
- Pollen analysis of the Peat Member from the Lee Creek Mine1
Each of the 48 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 content1
Picture of Monolete
- Source
- Smithsonian
- Credit
- Smithsonian Institution
- Licence
- CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPteridophyta through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Van der Hammen et al. 1973