Taurocusporites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 82 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 54 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 54 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 54 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 34 of 54 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 17 of 54 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 54 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 54 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 54 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 54 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 54 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 54 occurrences178–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 1 occurrence160–155 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences155–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143–137 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences137–131 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences131–125 Mya — about 3 occurrences125–119 Mya — about 5 occurrences119–114 Mya — about 6 occurrences114–108 Mya — about 9 occurrences108–102 Mya — about 7 occurrences102–96 Mya — about 6 occurrences96–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–72 Mya — about 3 occurrences72–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–61 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences61–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–1.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences154.8 Mya72.2 Mya178 Mya2 Mya

54 occurrences of Taurocusporites 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

54 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

16 formations

Kachaike — 49.06°S, 72.14°WKachaike — 48.82°S, 72.12°WKachaike — 49.00°S, 72.00°WBurg El-Arab — 30.99°N, 27.77°EDinosaur Park — 50.82°N, 111.57°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.49°WRio Mayer — 49.06°S, 72.14°WRio Mayer — 48.82°S, 72.12°WLa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.75°WLa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WLa Colonia — 42.97°S, 67.54°WWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.35°WKhatatba — 30.99°N, 27.77°EPiedra Clavada — 49.53°S, 71.48°WGrès à Trigonies — 38.85°N, 9.33°WKukebai — 40.00°N, 100.00°EHuincul — 36.53°S, 69.65°WBaqueró — 48.52°S, 69.17°WLa Cantera — 33.00°S, 66.50°WIlek — 55.90°N, 87.96°EChorrillo — 50.51°S, 72.56°WCerro Fortaleza — 49.83°S, 72.12°W

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The named rock units Taurocusporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Taurocusporites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

601 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Taurocusporites, 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

20 references

Each of the 54 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. 8 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

Media content0

No picture of Taurocusporites 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 Taurocusporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Taurocusporites 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 itBryophyta through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stover 1962