Cissites insignis
No picture of Cissites insignis 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 Cissites insignis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CissitesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cissites insignis 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cissites insignis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cissites insignis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cissites insignis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Amesoneuron2 sites
- Artocarpus lessigiana2 sites
- Bisonia niemii2 sites
- Cercidiphyllum2 sites
- Cupressinocladus interruptus2 sites
- Dicotyledoneae2 sites
- Dryophyllum2 sites
- Dryophyllum subfalcatum2 sites
- Elatides2 sites
- Ficus planicostata2 sites
- Filicales2 sites
- Grewiopsis2 sites
- Laurales2 sites
- Liriodendrites bradacii2 sites
- Magnoliaceae2 sites
- Magnoliid2 sites
- Marmarthia pearsonii2 sites
- Marmarthia trivialis2 sites
- Myrica torreyi2 sites
- Nelumbo2 sites
- Paranymphaea2 sites
- Platanites marginata2 sites
- Platanus raynoldsii2 sites
- Rhamnaceae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cissites insignis, 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
1 referenceEach 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 Cissites insignis 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 Cissites insignis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cissites insignis 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 itCissites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heer 1866