Chrysotheca
No picture of Chrysotheca 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 Chrysotheca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- JungermannialesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 78 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Chrysotheca 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
11 occurrencesThese 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 Chrysotheca 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.
Chrysotheca and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Chrysotheca and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Spermatites2 sites
- Alatampulla bartlettii1 site
- Arcellites1 site
- Arcellites disciformis1 site
- Balmeisporites1 site
- Cedroxylon1 site
- Coptothyris1 site
- Microcarpolithes1 site
- Minerisporites1 site
- Molaspora1 site
- Molaspora lobata1 site
- Perotrilites1 site
- Phyllodermium reinschii1 site
- Pilularia globulifera1 site
- Regnellidium1 site
- Spermatites elongatus1 site
- Triletes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Chrysotheca, 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
5 references- Megaspores and some other fossils from the Aachenian (Senonian) in South Limburg, Netherlands5
- Megaspores and other fossils in the Dakota Formation (Cenomanian) of Iowa, (U.S.A.)3
- Wealden Megaspores and their stratigraphical value1
- Cretaceous Plant Microfossils from Iowa1
- Paleobotanical Examinations of Cretaceous and Tertiary Coals: I. Cretaceous Coals from Greenland1
Each of the 11 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. 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 Chrysotheca 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 Chrysotheca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Chrysotheca 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itJungermanniales through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miner 1935