Pterisisporites
No picture of Pterisisporites 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 Pterisisporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PteridaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
27 occurrences of Pterisisporites 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
27 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Pterisisporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pterisisporites and its relatives
EoceneWhere Pterisisporites and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
94 taxa- Verrucatosporites27 sites
- Deltoidospora26 sites
- Laevigatosporites26 sites
- Cupanieidites23 sites
- Proxapertites operculatus22 sites
- Acrostichum20 sites
- Verrucatosporites usmensis20 sites
- Sapotaceoidaepollenites19 sites
- Saxosporis19 sites
- Cupuliferoipollenites18 sites
- Euphorbiaceae18 sites
- Longapertites18 sites
- Myrtaceidites17 sites
- Anthocerisporis16 sites
- Discoidites16 sites
- Pinuspollenites16 sites
- Restioniidites16 sites
- Rubiaceae16 sites
- Ranunculacidites operculatus15 sites
- Casuarinidites cainozoicus14 sites
- Proxapertites14 sites
- Dicolpopollis13 sites
- Lanagiopollis13 sites
- Leptolepidites12 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Pterisisporites, 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
1 referenceEach of the 27 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
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No picture of Pterisisporites 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 Pterisisporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pterisisporites 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 itPteridaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sung and Zheng