Biretisporites potoniaei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BiretisporitesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 131 million years on record.
The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
40 occurrences of Biretisporites potoniaei on record, most of them in the Early 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
40 occurrences- Middle Jurassicunder 1%
- Late Jurassic6%
- Early Cretaceous46%
- Late Cretaceous43%
- Paleocene3%
- Miocene3%
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
17 formations
- Cerro Cazador Formation8
- Burg El-Arab Formation5
- Six Hills Formation4
- Alamein Formation3
- Kharita Formation2
- Bahariya Formation2
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The named rock units Biretisporites potoniaei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Biretisporites potoniaei and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Biretisporites potoniaei and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
429 taxa- Cyathidites minor22 sites
- Araucariacites australis20 sites
- Cicatricosisporites19 sites
- Cycadopites18 sites
- Ephedripites18 sites
- Gleicheniidites senonicus16 sites
- Classopollis15 sites
- Concavisporites15 sites
- Deltoidospora15 sites
- Inaperturopollenites15 sites
- Todisporites minor15 sites
- Classopollis classoides14 sites
- Araucariacites12 sites
- Eucommiidites12 sites
- Tricolpites12 sites
- Cicatricosisporites orbiculatus11 sites
- Sphaeripollenites11 sites
- Baculatisporites comaumensis10 sites
- Callialasporites trilobatus10 sites
- Concavissimisporites punctatus10 sites
- Deltoidospora australis10 sites
- Leptolepidites10 sites
- Microcachryidites antarcticus10 sites
- Verrucosisporites10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Biretisporites potoniaei, 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
17 references- Aptian-Turonian palynology of the Ghazalat-1 well (GTX-1), Qattara Depression, Egypt8
- Jurassic-Cretaceous (Bathonian to Cenomanian) palynology and stratigraphy of the West Tiba-1 borehole, northern Western Desert, Egypt6
- Estudio palinológico de la Formación Cerro Cazador (Cretácico tardío) de la Provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina4
- Palinología del entorno cretácico/paleógeno del SO de la provincia de Santa Cruz: significado estratigráfico y paleoambiental4
- Barremian angiosperm pollen and associated palynomorphs from the Dakhla Oasis Area, Egypt4
- Palynology of the Jagüel Formation (Maastrichtian-Danian) in northwestern Río Negro, Neuquén Basin, Argentina: paleobiogeographic inferences2
- Palynology of the Mesozoic sediments of Kutch, W. India - 5. Spores and pollen from Katrol exposures near Bhuj, Kutch district, Gujarat state2
- Paleontological and paleoecological significance of the oldest highly productive Upper Cretaceous (lowermost Maastrichtian) bonebed of Haţeg Basin (western Romania; Densuş-Ciula Formation)1
- Palynostratigraphical review of the KePg boundary from the Ibero- Armorican Island: new data from the Maastrichtian dinosaur outcrop Veracruz 1 (Pyrenees, NE Iberian Peninsula)1
- ‘X’ marks the spot! Sedimentological, geochemical and palaeontological investigations of upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) vertebrate fossil localities from the Vălioara valley (Densuş-Ciula Formation, Hațeg basin, Romania)1
- 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 Province1
- Estudio palinológico de la Formación Punta del Barco, Cretácico Inferior (Aptiano) de la provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina. Descripciones sistemáticas I: esporas monoletes y triletes lisas y cinguladas1
Each of the 40 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. 5 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
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No picture of Biretisporites potoniaei 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 Biretisporites potoniaei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Biretisporites potoniaei was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Delcourt and Sprumont 1955