Tetracolporites

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 27 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 27 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 14 of 27 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 27 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 27 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–9.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–3.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.66 Mya15.98 Mya85 Mya4 Mya

27 occurrences of Tetracolporites 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

27 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

9 formations

San Fernando — 4.90°N, 73.02°WAreniscas de el Limbo — 4.90°N, 73.02°WMirador — 7.70°N, 72.62°WLa Ollita — 29.54°S, 69.53°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.32°S, 56.87°WFoulden Hills Diatomite — 45.53°S, 170.22°ECherra — 25.31°N, 91.73°EWarkalli — 8.74°N, 76.70°ECerro Dorotea — 51.59°S, 72.41°W

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The named rock units Tetracolporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tetracolporites and its relatives

Eocene

Where Tetracolporites and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

432 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Tetracolporites, 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

11 references

Each of the 27 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Tetracolporites 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 itMagnoliopsida through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Couper 1953