Osculapollis
No picture of Osculapollis was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Osculapollis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At least 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 56 Mya.
64 occurrences of Osculapollis 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
7 formations
- Magothy Formation38
- Peedee Formation6
- Raritan Formation5
- Black Creek Formation3
- McNairy Formation3
- Porters Creek Formation1
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The named rock units Osculapollis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Osculapollis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Osculapollis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
129 taxa- Pseudoplicapollis24 sites
- Momipites23 sites
- Plicapollis23 sites
- Complexiopollis abditus18 sites
- Labrapollis <sp. A>18 sites
- Trudopollis18 sites
- Choanopollenites17 sites
- Complexiopollis16 sites
- <New Genus D sp. A>15 sites
- <New Genus D sp. D>15 sites
- Labrapollis <sp. D>15 sites
- <New Genus D sp. B>13 sites
- Minorpollis <sp. C>13 sites
- Minorpollis minima13 sites
- Momipites fragilis13 sites
- Ulmaceapites <sp. A>13 sites
- Minorpollis <sp. A>12 sites
- Labrapollis <sp. B>11 sites
- Holkopollenites chemardensis10 sites
- Labrapollis <sp. C>10 sites
- Perucipollis <sp. A>10 sites
- Complexiopollis exigua9 sites
- Plicapollis usitatus9 sites
- Pseudoplicapollis longiannulata9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Osculapollis, 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- Normapolles and triporate pollen assemblages from the Raritan and Magothy Formations (Upper Cretaceous) of New Jersey28
- A palynological biozonation for the uppermost Santonian and Campanian Stages (Upper Cretaceous) of South Carolina, USA19
- Quantitative palynological correlation of three Campanian and Maestrichtian sections (upper Cretaceous) from the Atlantic Coastal Plain8
- A palynological biozonation for the Maastrichtian Stage (Upper Cretaceous) of South Carolina, USA4
- Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of lower Paleozoic, upper Cretaceous, and lower Tertiary rocks in U.S. Geological Survey New Madrid test wells, Southeastern Missouri4
- Palynology of a Late Cretaceous vertebrate site in northeastern Mississippi, U.S.A.—implications for floristics, biostratigraphy and climate1
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. 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.
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No picture of Osculapollis was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Osculapollis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Osculapollis 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 itFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tschudy 1975