Retiacolpites
No picture of Retiacolpites 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 Retiacolpites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DicotyledoneaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 137.05 Mya and 121.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Retiacolpites on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
6 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Retiacolpites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Retiacolpites and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Retiacolpites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Aequitriradites3 sites
- Afropollis3 sites
- Araucariacites3 sites
- Biretisporites3 sites
- Callialasporites microvelatus3 sites
- Chomotriletes3 sites
- Cicatricosisporites3 sites
- Classopollis3 sites
- Clavatipollenites hughesii3 sites
- Cyathidites3 sites
- Deltoidospora3 sites
- Ephedripites3 sites
- Ephedripites multicostatus3 sites
- Eucommiidites3 sites
- Fromea3 sites
- Hymenoreticulisporites cf. altimuronatus3 sites
- Neoraistrickia3 sites
- Retimonocolpites3 sites
- Retimonocolpites pennyi3 sites
- Retitriletes3 sites
- Stellatopollis3 sites
- Todisporites minor3 sites
- Tucanopollis annulatus3 sites
- Tucanopollis crisopolensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Retiacolpites, 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
2 references- Barremian angiosperm pollen and associated palynomorphs from the Dakhla Oasis Area, Egypt5
- Early Cretaceous palynostratigraphy, palynofacies and palaeoenvironments of well sections in northeastern Tierra del Fuego, Argentina1
Each of the 6 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 Retiacolpites 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 Retiacolpites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Retiacolpites 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 itDicotyledoneae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schrank and Mahmoud 2002