Palmospermum

No picture of Palmospermum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palmospermum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 26 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 24 of 26 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 26 occurrencesMiocene60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 5 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 5 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 5 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 5 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56 Mya15.98 Mya60.2 Mya10.7 Mya

26 occurrences of Palmospermum 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

26 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

1 formation

London Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.42°N, 0.75°WLondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 51.41°N, 0.91°E

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The named rock units Palmospermum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palmospermum and its relatives

Eocene

Where Palmospermum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

93 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Palmospermum, 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 26 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 Palmospermum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palmospermum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

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What may have been alongside itCorypheae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reid and Chandler 1933