Acanthotriletes varispinosus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcanthotriletesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Acanthotriletes varispinosus 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
- Scollard Formation · Edmonton Group1
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The named rock units Acanthotriletes varispinosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Acanthotriletes varispinosus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Acanthotriletes varispinosus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
99 taxa- Aquilapollenites2 sites
- Cranwellia2 sites
- Cyathidites minor2 sites
- Laevigatosporites2 sites
- Laevigatosporites discordatus2 sites
- Laevigatosporites ovatus2 sites
- Liliacidites2 sites
- Schizosporis2 sites
- Symplocoipollenites2 sites
- Taxodiaceaepollenites2 sites
- Accuratipollis evanidus1 site
- Aequitriradites spinulosus1 site
- Alisporites grandis1 site
- Alnipollenites1 site
- Araucariacites australis1 site
- Azolla1 site
- Baculatisporites1 site
- Beaupreaidites1 site
- Carpinipites ancipites n. gen.1 site
- Cedripites1 site
- Cedripites cretaceus1 site
- Ceratosporites equalis1 site
- cf. Orbiculapollis sp.1 site
- Cingutriletes clavus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Acanthotriletes varispinosus, 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
2 references- Palynology of Dinosaur Provincial Park (Campanian) Alberta1
- Upper Cretaceous microflora (Maestrichtian) from Scollard, Alberta, Canada1
Each of the 2 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 Acanthotriletes varispinosus 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 Acanthotriletes varispinosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acanthotriletes varispinosus 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 itAcanthotriletes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pocock 1962