Polycolpites langstonii
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolycolpitesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 56 Mya.
13 occurrences of Polycolpites langstonii on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
13 occurrences- Late Cretaceous26%
- Paleocene74%
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
2 formations
- López de Bertodano Formation · Seymour Island Group3
- Sobral Formation1
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The named rock units Polycolpites langstonii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Polycolpites langstonii and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Polycolpites langstonii and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
84 taxa- Ilexpollenites10 sites
- Podocarpidites10 sites
- Proteacidites10 sites
- Lygistepollenites florinii9 sites
- Nothofagidites9 sites
- Phyllocladidites9 sites
- Trichotomosulcites subgranulatus8 sites
- Tricolpites8 sites
- Araucariacites australis7 sites
- Lygistepollenites balmei7 sites
- Microcachryidites antarcticus7 sites
- Phyllocladidites mawsonii7 sites
- Basopollis6 sites
- Periporopollenites6 sites
- Tricolporites6 sites
- Gleicheniidites5 sites
- Nothofagidites endurus5 sites
- Nothofagidites flemingii5 sites
- Clavifera triplex4 sites
- Dilwynites granulatus4 sites
- Gambierina4 sites
- Haloragacidites harrisii4 sites
- Liliacidites4 sites
- Nothofagidites brachyspinulosus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Polycolpites langstonii, 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
4 references- Early Tertiary palaeogeography, landform evolution, and palaeoclimates of the Southern Monaro, N.S.W., Australia8
- Campanian to Paleocene spore and pollen assemblages of Seymour Island, Antarctica2
- Endemism and heterochrony in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) to Paleocene palynofloras of Seymour Island, Antarctica: implications for origins, dispersal and palaeoclimates of southern floras2
- Palynology of the Marambio Group (Upper Cretaceous) of northern Humps Island1
Each of the 13 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Polycolpites langstonii 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 Polycolpites langstonii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Polycolpites langstonii 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 itPolycolpites through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stover 1973