Cissites
No picture of Cissites was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cissites itself, so it was not used. Wikipedia and 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 Cissites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VitaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 44 million years on record.
The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 51.1 Mya.
30 occurrences of Cissites 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
30 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
8 formations
- Hell Creek Formation17
- Krivorechenskaya Formation5
- Salamanca Formation2
- Willwood Formation1
- Commotion Formation1
- Cretaceous Formation1
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The named rock units Cissites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cissites and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cissites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
178 taxa- Dicotyledoneae12 sites
- Magnoliid11 sites
- Dryophyllum subfalcatum10 sites
- Trochodendroides9 sites
- Laurales8 sites
- Erlingdorfia montana7 sites
- Ficus planicostata7 sites
- Marmarthia trivialis7 sites
- Rhamnus cleburni7 sites
- Nilsonia6 sites
- Platanites marginata6 sites
- Rhamnaceae6 sites
- Amesoneuron5 sites
- Cercidiphyllum5 sites
- Ginkgo adiantoides5 sites
- Grewiopsis5 sites
- Leepierceia preartocarpoides5 sites
- Liriodendrites bradacii5 sites
- Marmarthia pearsonii5 sites
- Paranymphaea5 sites
- Platanaceae5 sites
- Scheffleraephyllum venustum5 sites
- Vitis5 sites
- Acanthopteris4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Cissites, 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
9 references- Megaflora of the Hell Creek and lower Fort Union Formations in the western Dakotas: Vegetational response to climate change, the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary event, and rapid marine transgression17
- Palaeoenvironment and ecology of the middle Cretaceous Grebenka flora of northeastern Asia5
- A Paleocene lowland macroflora from Patagonia reveals signifcantly greater richness than North American analogs2
- Plant and mammal diversity in the Paleocene to Early Eocene of the Bighorn Basin1
- Lower Cretaceous Section, Belcourt Ridge, Northeastern British Columbia1
- Paleocene flora of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains1
- A Paleocene flora from Patagonia1
- Upper Cretaceous floras of the eastern Gulf region in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia1
- The Cretaceous formation of the Black Hills as as indicated by the fossil plants1
Each of the 30 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
Media content0
No picture of Cissites was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cissites itself, so it was not used.
Wikipedia and 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 Cissites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cissites 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 itVitaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Debey 1866