Clavatoraceae

Flabellochara L.Grambast, 1959, a relative of Clavatoraceae — not Clavatoraceae itself

Not Clavatoraceae. This is Flabellochara L.Grambast, 1959, a relative — both are Clavatoraceae.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CharineaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Charophyta
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Charophyta

Time the record covers

At least 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 139.1 Mya to 56 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 11 of 12 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 12 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 12 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences138–135 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences132–129 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 4 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 4 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences137.05 Mya59.24 Mya141 Mya54 Mya

12 occurrences of Clavatoraceae 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

12 occurrences

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

7 formations

El Collado — 40.59°N, 2.07°WBlesa — 40.95°N, 0.77°WEl Castellar — 40.58°N, 0.69°WEl Castellar — 40.46°N, 0.74°WNomogen — 43.53°N, 111.73°ELa Huérguina — 40.12°N, 1.97°WEl Horcajo Unit — 42.30°N, 2.44°WMirambel — 40.71°N, 0.42°W

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The named rock units Clavatoraceae 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.

Clavatoraceae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Clavatoraceae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

204 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Clavatoraceae, 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

Each of the 12 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 content1

Picture of Flabellochara L.Grambast, 1959

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Clavatoraceae 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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What may have been alongside itCharineae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pia 1927