Azolla velus
No picture of Azolla velus 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 Azolla velus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AzollaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Azolla velus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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- Paleocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Azolla velus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Azolla velus and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Azolla velus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Amelanchites similis1 site
- Animalia1 site
- Azolla schopfii1 site
- Dicotylophyllum anomalum1 site
- Equisetum fluviatoides1 site
- Glyptostrobus nordenskioldii1 site
- Mesocyparis borealis1 site
- Onoclea hesperia1 site
- Osmunda macrophylla1 site
- Paranymphaea crassifolia1 site
- Plantae1 site
- Platanites canadensis1 site
- Platanus1 site
- Prunites maclearnii1 site
- Quereuxia1 site
- Trochodendroides speciosa1 site
- Viburnum1 site
- Viburnum ravenscragensis1 site
- Viviparus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Azolla velus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Vegetative remains of Azolla schopfii Dijkstra from Genesee, Alberta1
- A contribution to the Early Tertiary fossil record of the Salviniaceae1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Azolla velus 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 Azolla velus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Azolla velus 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 itAzolla through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jain and Hall 1969