Ricinospora sp.

No picture of Ricinospora sp. was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ricinospora sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 14 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 14 occurrencesLate Cretaceous127–125 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–121 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–93 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121.4 Mya85.7 Mya127 Mya71 Mya

14 occurrences of Ricinospora sp. on record, most of them in the Late 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

14 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

5 formations

Dunvegan — 55.92°N, 118.59°WDamoguihe — 49.20°N, 119.70°EDamoguihe — 49.50°N, 119.52°EDamoguihe — 48.42°N, 119.77°EYimin — 48.42°N, 119.77°EEumeralla — 38.77°S, 143.25°EWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.35°W

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The named rock units Ricinospora sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ricinospora sp. and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Ricinospora sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

126 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Ricinospora sp., 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 14 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

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No picture of Ricinospora sp. was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ricinospora sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Ricinospora sp. 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.