Taurocusporites reduncus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TaurocusporitesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 37 million years on record.
The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
9 occurrences of Taurocusporites reduncus 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
9 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Weald Clay Formation · Wealden Group1
- Dinosaur Park Formation · Belly River Group1
- Ilek Formation1
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The named rock units Taurocusporites reduncus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Taurocusporites reduncus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Taurocusporites reduncus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
243 taxa- Alisporites bilateralis8 sites
- Cyathidites australis8 sites
- Cyathidites minor8 sites
- Abietineaepollenites7 sites
- Cicatricosisporites australiensis7 sites
- Classopollis torosus7 sites
- Eucommiidites troedssonii7 sites
- Gleicheniidites circinidites7 sites
- Gleicheniidites senonicus7 sites
- Inaperturopollenites dubius7 sites
- Laevigatosporites ovatus7 sites
- Liliacidites7 sites
- Taurocusporites segmentatus7 sites
- Taxodiaceaepollenites7 sites
- Tricolpites7 sites
- Vitreisporites pallidus7 sites
- Abietoneapollenites dunrobinensis6 sites
- Appendicisporites tricornitatus6 sites
- Araucariacites limbatus6 sites
- Calamospora mesozoica6 sites
- Clavatipollenites hughesii6 sites
- Concavisporites6 sites
- Discoidella6 sites
- Foraminisporis dailyi6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Taurocusporites reduncus, 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- Middle Cretaceous palynomorph assemblages from clays near the Horizon Beta deep-sea outcrop5
- Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic reconstruction of the Early Cretaceous psittacosaur localities, Asia1
- The palaeoenvironment associated with a partial Iguanodon skeleton from the Upper Weald Clay (Barremian, Early Cretaceous) at Smokejacks Brickworks (Ockley, Surrey, UK), based on palynomorphs and ostracods1
- Palynology of Dinosaur Provincial Park (Campanian) Alberta1
- Middle Cretaceous palynomorphs in a deep-sea core from the Seismic Reflector Horizon A outcrop area1
Each of the 9 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 Taurocusporites reduncus 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 reduncus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Taurocusporites reduncus 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 itTaurocusporites through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stover 1962