Virkkipollenites obscurus
No picture of Virkkipollenites obscurus was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Virkkipollenites obscurus 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. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VirkkipollenitesPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 47 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Virkkipollenites obscurus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
7 occurrences- Permian100%
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.
Virkkipollenites obscurus and its relatives
PermianWhere Virkkipollenites obscurus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
179 taxa- Cannanoropollis mehtae4 sites
- Cannanoropollis densus3 sites
- Leiotriletes3 sites
- Plicatipollenites indicus3 sites
- Arberia umbellata2 sites
- Brevitriletes levis2 sites
- Cannanoropollis triangularis2 sites
- Cordaites spatulata2 sites
- Cyclobaculisporites minutus2 sites
- Cyclogranisporites gondwanensis2 sites
- Decussatisporites lucifer2 sites
- Densipollenites indicus2 sites
- Divarisaccus lelei2 sites
- Ephedripites ellipticus2 sites
- Faunipollenites goraiensis2 sites
- Gangamopteris2 sites
- Ginkgocycadophytus2 sites
- Hindipollenites globosus2 sites
- Laevigatosporites2 sites
- Lahirites rarus2 sites
- Lophotriletes2 sites
- Maheshwariella furcata2 sites
- Plicatipollenites2 sites
- Punctatisporites2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Virkkipollenites obscurus, 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 referenceEach of the 7 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 Virkkipollenites obscurus was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Virkkipollenites obscurus 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.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Virkkipollenites obscurus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itVirkkipollenites through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lele 1964)