Pterospermites

No picture of Pterospermites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Pterospermites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 21 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 21 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 10 of 21 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 21 occurrencesEocene102–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 4 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66 Mya48.07 Mya102 Mya36 Mya

21 occurrences of Pterospermites 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

21 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

6 formations

Fort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WFort Union — 46.39°N, 104.00°WFort Union — 46.46°N, 104.00°WFort Union — 46.34°N, 103.99°WFort Union — 46.00°N, 103.00°WWulonggu — 47.52°N, 87.08°ETuscaloosa — 33.92°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WHell Creek — 46.32°N, 103.86°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WChu Chua — 51.36°N, 120.15°W

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The named rock units Pterospermites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pterospermites and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Pterospermites and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

229 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Pterospermites, 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 21 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

Media content0

No picture of Pterospermites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Pterospermites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pterospermites was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itSterculiaceae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heer 1859