Vitreisporites

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 236 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 114 occurrencesPermian — about 17 of 114 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 11 of 114 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 114 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 114 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 4 of 114 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 114 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 114 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 20 of 114 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 41 of 114 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 114 occurrencesEocene — about 8 of 114 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 114 occurrences304–295 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences295–286 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences286–277 Mya — about 1 occurrence277–267 Mya — about 1 occurrence267–258 Mya — about 4 occurrences258–249 Mya — about 21 occurrences249–240 Mya — about 4 occurrences240–231 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences231–222 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences222–212 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences212–203 Mya — about 1 occurrence203–194 Mya — about 3 occurrences194–185 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences185–176 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences176–166 Mya — about 3 occurrences166–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–148 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences148–139 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences139–130 Mya — about 2 occurrences130–120 Mya — about 3 occurrences120–111 Mya — about 5 occurrences111–102 Mya — about 8 occurrences102–93 Mya — about 19 occurrences93–84 Mya — about 4 occurrences84–75 Mya — about 5 occurrences75–65 Mya — about 15 occurrences65–56 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences56–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences274.4 Mya37.71 Mya304 Mya29 Mya

114 occurrences of Vitreisporites on record, most of them in the Late 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

114 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

31 formations

Bathurst Island — 11.79°S, 130.23°EBathurst Island — 11.78°S, 130.35°EChorrillo — 50.50°S, 72.56°WCalvoerde — 52.12°N, 10.67°EWhisky Bay — 63.87°S, 58.08°WWhisky Bay — 63.83°S, 58.13°WZechstein Limestone — 50.83°N, 20.67°EDinosaur Park — 50.82°N, 111.57°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.48°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.49°WKingscourt Sandstone — 53.90°N, 6.79°WSpringhill — 52.77°S, 68.70°WBernburg — 52.12°N, 10.67°EKachaike — 49.06°S, 72.14°WKachaike — 49.00°S, 72.00°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.83°WKotick Point — 64.00°S, 58.36°WKotick Point — 64.01°S, 58.35°WMt. Facito — 40.48°N, 15.65°EChinle — 35.20°N, 108.20°WBasal Conglomerate — 50.83°N, 20.67°EBuckly — 84.00°S, 162.00°EFremouw — 84.00°S, 165.00°EGevanim — 31.60°N, 34.70°EZafir — 31.60°N, 34.70°EToad/Grayling — 56.23°N, 117.28°WVal Gardena Sandstone — 46.36°N, 11.41°ESpringill — 52.77°S, 68.70°WSanta Marta — 63.88°S, 57.96°WMacquarie Harbor — 42.17°S, 145.36°E

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The named rock units Vitreisporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vitreisporites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Vitreisporites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,016 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Vitreisporites, 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

39 references

Each of the 114 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. 27 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 Vitreisporites 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 Vitreisporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Vitreisporites 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 itCaytoniales through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leschik 1955