Spermatites elongatus

No picture of Spermatites elongatus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Spermatites elongatus 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. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpermatitesPBDB

Time the record covers

At most 78 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145 Mya64 Mya

3 occurrences of Spermatites elongatus 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

3 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

1 formation

Dakota — 42.65°N, 96.54°W

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The named rock units Spermatites elongatus 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.

Spermatites elongatus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Spermatites elongatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Spermatites elongatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

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 Spermatites elongatus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Spermatites elongatus 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.

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

No 3D scan of Spermatites elongatus 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. Miner 1935