Proxapertites
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AraceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 75 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
553 occurrences of Proxapertites 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
553 occurrences- Early Cretaceousunder 1%
- Late Cretaceous3%
- Paleocene52%
- Eocene44%
- Oligoceneunder 1%
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
34 formations
- Misoa Formation118
- Mirador Formation102
- Yaw Formation75
- Guasare Formation49
- Arcillas de el Limbo Formation48
- Bara Formation · Ranikot Group26
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The named rock units Proxapertites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Proxapertites and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Proxapertites and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
828 taxa- Longapertites97 sites
- Cupanieidites54 sites
- Laevigatosporites52 sites
- Deltoidospora49 sites
- Retistephanocolpites48 sites
- Verrucatosporites48 sites
- Triatriopollenites45 sites
- Acrostichum41 sites
- Verrucatosporites usmensis41 sites
- Sapotaceoidaepollenites40 sites
- Longapertites retipilatus39 sites
- Discoidites38 sites
- Euphorbiaceae38 sites
- Cupanieidites flaccidiformis37 sites
- Cupuliferoipollenites36 sites
- Dicolpopollis34 sites
- Rubiaceae34 sites
- Cricotriporites32 sites
- Saxosporis32 sites
- Campnosperma31 sites
- Mauritiidites franciscoi franciscoi31 sites
- Triporopollenites31 sites
- Assamialetes emendatus30 sites
- Spinizonocolpites30 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 188 sites for Proxapertites, 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
24 references- Palaeofloristic and palaeovegetational changes across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary in northern South America259
- Middle Paleogene palynology of Central Colombia, South America: A study of pollen and spores from tropical latitudes82
- A proto-monsoonal climate in the late Eocene of Southeast Asia: evidence from a sedimentary record in central Myanmar75
- Palynological contribution to geologic mapping of coal-bearing upper Paleocene rocks in the lower Indus coal region, Pakistan63
- Palinología del entorno cretácico/paleógeno del SO de la provincia de Santa Cruz: significado estratigráfico y paleoambiental10
- Palynology of Mesozoic and lower Tertiary samples from northern, central, and southern Pakistan9
- Palynostratigraphy from the Allen and Jagüel formations at the Cerro Gutiérrez locality, Lago Pellegrini area, South Argentina8
- Sporomorph biostratigraphy, floral changes, and paleoclimatology, Eocene and Earliest Oligocen of the eastern Gulf Coast8
- Upper Paleocene and Lowermost Eocene Angiosperm Pollen Biostratigraphy of the Eastern Gulf Coast and Virginia6
- A palynological study on the upper Los Cuervos and Mirador formations (Lower and middle Eocene; Tibu area, Colombia)6
- Palynology of the Jagüel Formation (Maastrichtian-Danian) in northwestern Río Negro, Neuquén Basin, Argentina: paleobiogeographic inferences5
- Pollen from the K–Pg boundary of the La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina4
Each of the 553 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. 12 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Proxapertites 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 Proxapertites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Proxapertites 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAraceae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Van der Hammen 1956