Retinosporites
No picture of Retinosporites 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 Retinosporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ConiferalesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
5 occurrences of Retinosporites on record. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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 Retinosporites 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.
Found in the same rock
281 taxa- Ptilophyllum acutifolium4 sites
- Araucarites cutchensis3 sites
- Araucarites minutus3 sites
- Callialasporites dampieri3 sites
- Callialasporites trilobatus3 sites
- Elatocladus conferta3 sites
- Pityosporites3 sites
- Podocarpidites3 sites
- Ptilophyllum cutchense3 sites
- Singhiapollis triletus3 sites
- Taeniopteris spatulata3 sites
- Alisporites2 sites
- Araucariacites australis2 sites
- Baiera2 sites
- Boseisporites praeclarus2 sites
- Brachyphyllum2 sites
- Callialasporites lenticularis2 sites
- Callialasporites monoalasporus2 sites
- Callispora2 sites
- Cladophlebis2 sites
- Contignisporites cooksonii2 sites
- Contignisporites fornicatus2 sites
- Cyathidites2 sites
- Cyathidites australis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Retinosporites, 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 5 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Retinosporites 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 Retinosporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Retinosporites 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 itConiferales through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Holden 1915