Sphaeripollenites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CupressalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 153 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 286 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 110 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 3 of 110 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 110 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 110 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 110 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 110 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 110 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 63 of 110 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 38 of 110 occurrences290–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–263 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences263–257 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences257–250 Mya — about 2 occurrences250–243 Mya — about 1 occurrence243–237 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences177–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–163 Mya — about 3 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences157–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–137 Mya — about 3 occurrences137–130 Mya — about 3 occurrences130–123 Mya — about 7 occurrences123–117 Mya — about 10 occurrences117–110 Mya — about 11 occurrences110–103 Mya — about 19 occurrences103–97 Mya — about 30 occurrences97–90 Mya — about 16 occurrences254.14 Mya100.5 Mya290 Mya90 Mya

110 occurrences of Sphaeripollenites 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

110 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

17 formations

Bentiu — 11.03°N, 27.74°EAbu Gabra — 11.03°N, 27.74°ETambo — 27.34°S, 135.72°ETambo — 29.13°S, 140.88°ERunnymede — 37.37°S, 140.90°ESix Hills — 25.00°N, 28.50°ESix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.25°ESix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.00°EKharita — 29.00°N, 29.00°EAlamein — 29.00°N, 29.00°ECalcaires à Stipites — 44.18°N, 3.22°EToad/Grayling — 56.23°N, 117.28°WBurg El-Arab — 30.99°N, 27.77°EKöveskal Dolomite — 46.88°N, 17.61°EBahariya — 29.00°N, 29.00°EVellerat — 47.23°N, 7.33°EBelloy — 56.23°N, 117.28°WCalcaires récifaux supérieurs — 38.78°N, 9.23°WGrès, argiles et lignites supérieurs — 38.73°N, 9.43°WAbu Roash — 30.99°N, 27.77°E

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The named rock units Sphaeripollenites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphaeripollenites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Sphaeripollenites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

394 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 87 sites for Sphaeripollenites, 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

16 references

Each of the 110 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Sphaeripollenites 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 Sphaeripollenites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sphaeripollenites 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 itCupressales through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Couper 1958