Colpectopollis ellipsoideus

No picture of Colpectopollis ellipsoideus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Colpectopollis ellipsoideus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 4 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate Triassic252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 1 occurrence245–244 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247 Mya237 Mya252.4 Mya226.8 Mya

4 occurrences of Colpectopollis ellipsoideus on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

4 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

2 formations

Vossenveld — 51.97°N, 6.78°EFalling Creek — 37.83°N, 77.43°W

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The named rock units Colpectopollis ellipsoideus 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.

Colpectopollis ellipsoideus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Colpectopollis ellipsoideus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

57 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Colpectopollis ellipsoideus, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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 Colpectopollis ellipsoideus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Colpectopollis ellipsoideus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Colpectopollis ellipsoideus 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.