Unsorted fossils

No picture of Unsorted fossils was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Unsorted fossils 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.

Time the record covers

At most 3.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 1.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 11 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 7 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–5.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.9–4.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.6–4.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.0–3.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.0–2.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–2.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.2–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–1.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.9–1.8 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences5.83 Mya1.3 Mya

11 occurrences of Unsorted fossils on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

11 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

3 formations

Pico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.77°N, 120.48°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WFoxen Mudstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°W

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The named rock units Unsorted fossils has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Unsorted fossils and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Unsorted fossils and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

106 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Unsorted fossils, 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

1 reference

Each of the 11 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Unsorted fossils was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Unsorted fossils 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 Unsorted fossils 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.