Rutaspermum excavatum
No picture of Rutaspermum excavatum 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 Rutaspermum excavatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RutaspermumPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Rutaspermum excavatum on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Rutaspermum excavatum 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.
Rutaspermum excavatum and its relatives
EoceneWhere Rutaspermum excavatum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
114 taxa- Eomastixia rugosa3 sites
- Sabal3 sites
- Solanispermum reniformis3 sites
- Symplocos headonensis3 sites
- Vitis3 sites
- Acrostichum lanzaeanum2 sites
- Actinidia crassisperma2 sites
- Anemia poolensis2 sites
- Anemia subcretacea2 sites
- Caricoidea2 sites
- Caricoidea angulata2 sites
- Caricoidea obscura2 sites
- Euphorbiotheca2 sites
- Eurya (Cleyera) stigmosa2 sites
- Hamamelidaceae2 sites
- Laurocarpum2 sites
- Mastixicarpum crassum2 sites
- Nyssoidea eocenica2 sites
- Oncoba rugosa2 sites
- Phellodendron costatum2 sites
- Potamogeton pygmaeus2 sites
- Protoaltingia hantonensis2 sites
- Rhamnospermum bilobatum2 sites
- Scirpus lakensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Rutaspermum excavatum, 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- Chandler, 19632
- The Lower Tertiary Floras of Southern England. II. Flora of the Pipe-Clay Series of Dorset (Lower Bagshot)1
Each of the 3 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 Rutaspermum excavatum 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 Rutaspermum excavatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rutaspermum excavatum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRutaspermum through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chandler 1962