Apiosporaceae indet.
The Apiosporaceae are a family of fungi in the Ascomycota. It was placed in the order Amphisphaeriales in 2020.

Samarakoon BC, Wanasinghe DN, Samarakoon MC, Phookamsak R, McKenzie EH.C, Chomnunti P, Hyde KD, Lumyong S, Karunarath… · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Apiosporaceae indet. 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
3 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
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The named rock units Apiosporaceae indet. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Apiosporaceae indet. and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Apiosporaceae indet. and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Botryococcus braunii3 sites
- Longapertites patagonicus3 sites
- Oedogonium3 sites
- Ovoidites grandis3 sites
- Ovoidites parvus3 sites
- Ovoidites vangeelii3 sites
- Pediastrum boryanum3 sites
- Zignematales indet.3 sites
- Catinipollis geiseltalensis2 sites
- Lecaniella2 sites
- Lewalanipollis senectus2 sites
- Microthyriaceae2 sites
- Quadraplanus brossus2 sites
- <Mougeotia/Tetraporina/Tetrapidites>1 site
- Ascomycota1 site
- Asterinaceae1 site
- Azollopsis1 site
- cf. Endophragmiella sp.1 site
- cf. Entorrhiza sp.1 site
- cf. Excipularia sp.1 site
- cf. Monodyctis sp.1 site
- cf. Pseudocercospora sp.1 site
- cf. Repetophragma sp.1 site
- cf. Sporidesmium sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Apiosporaceae indet., 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 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Apiosporaceae indet.
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- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Samarakoon BC, Wanasinghe DN, Samarakoon MC, Phookamsak R, McKenzie EH.C, Chomnunti P, Hyde KD, Lumyong S, Karunarath…
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Apiosporaceae indet. 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.
The description on this site
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- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.