Regnellidium
Regnellidium is a monotypic genus of ferns of family Marsileaceae.

Dick Culbert · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MarsileaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 60 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
7 occurrences of Regnellidium on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
7 occurrences- Late Cretaceous66%
- Paleocene20%
- Oligocene14%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Regnellidium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Regnellidium and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Regnellidium and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
214 taxa- Molaspora lobata4 sites
- Acylomurus silviae2 sites
- Ailanthipites diminutus2 sites
- Araucariacites australis2 sites
- Arecipites botrus2 sites
- Arecipites minutiscabratus2 sites
- Azolla2 sites
- Azolla coloniensis2 sites
- Azollopsis intermedia2 sites
- Azollopsis tomentosa2 sites
- Biretisporites crassilabratus2 sites
- Bombacacidites brevis2 sites
- Botryococcus2 sites
- Callialasporites trilobatus2 sites
- Camarozonosporites ambigens2 sites
- Cibotiidites auriculatus2 sites
- Cibotiumspora jurienensis2 sites
- Cicatricosisporites2 sites
- Cingutriletes australis2 sites
- Classopollis2 sites
- Classopollis patagonicus2 sites
- Clavatipollenites2 sites
- Clavatosporis varians2 sites
- Clavifera triplex2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Regnellidium, 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
6 references- Regnellidium (Salviniales, Marsileaceae) macrofossils and associated spores from the Late Cretaceous of South America2
- The end of the dinosaur era in Patagonia (NatGeo Project)1
- Marsileaceae sporocarps and spores from the Late Cretaceous of Georgia1
- Die Floren des Haselbacher Serie im Weisselster-Becken (Bezirk Leipzig, DDR)1
- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants1
- Megaspores and other fossils in the Dakota Formation (Cenomanian) of Iowa, (U.S.A.)1
Each of the 7 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 content1
Picture of Regnellidium
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Dick Culbert
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Regnellidium 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMarsileaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindman