Ascomycota
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DikaryaPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 254 million years on record.
The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 0 Mya.
72 occurrences of Ascomycota on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
72 occurrences- Permian1%
- Early Cretaceous1%
- Late Cretaceous38%
- Paleocene6%
- Eocene18%
- Oligocene4%
- Miocene28%
- Plioceneunder 1%
- Pleistoceneunder 1%
- Holocene3%
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
21 formations
- Zarga-Ghazal Formation · Darfur Group6
- Deccan Intertrappean Formation5
- Puntudo Chico - La Colonia Formation5
- Río Turbio Formation3
- Lameta Formation2
- Huitrera Formation2
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The named rock units Ascomycota has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ascomycota and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ascomycota and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
2,762 taxa- Callimothallus11 sites
- Tricolpites7 sites
- Triorites7 sites
- Botryococcus6 sites
- Plantae6 sites
- Gemmatriletes5 sites
- Tricolporites5 sites
- Araneae4 sites
- Araucariacites australis4 sites
- Arecaceae4 sites
- Botryococcus braunii4 sites
- Chomotriletes minor4 sites
- Fungi4 sites
- Gabonisporis vigourouxii4 sites
- Microthyriaceae4 sites
- Phyllocladidites mawsonii4 sites
- Polypodiaceaesporites4 sites
- Selaginella4 sites
- Syncolporites4 sites
- Arachnida3 sites
- Diptera3 sites
- Distaverrusporites3 sites
- Eugenia3 sites
- Grimsdalea magnaclavata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Ascomycota, 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
31 references- Late Cretaceous spore-pollen zonation of the Central African Rift System (CARS), Kaikang Trough, Muglad Basin, South Sudan: angiosperm spread and links to the Elaterates Province10
- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants8
- Maastrichtian palaeoenvironments and palaeoclimate reconstruction in southern South America (Patagonia, Argentina) based on fossil fungi and algae using open data resources5
- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 4: Cenozoic (Tertiary) Megafossils5
- Miocenska Flora ze Starych Gliwic na Slasku (Miocene Flora of Stare Gliwice in Upper Silesia)5
- Amber inclusions from New Zealand4
- Material fúngico y granos de polen de angiospermas de la Formación Río Turbio (Eoceno), provincia de Santa Cruz, República Argentina3
- Cretaceous entomopathogenic fungi illuminate the early evolution of insect-fungal associations2
- Nothofagus and the associated palynoflora from the Late Cretaceous of Vega Island, Antarctic Peninsula2
- Evidence of mycoparasitism and hypermycoparasitism in Early Cretaceous amber2
- Fungi in dinosaurian (Isisaurus) coprolites from the Lameta Formation (Maastrichtian) and its reflection on food habit and environment2
- Palynostratigraphy of the Paleogene Huitrera Formation in N-W Patagonia, Argeyesina2
Each of the 72 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. 19 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 content1
Picture of Ascomycota
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Ascomycota 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 itDikarya through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whittaker 1959