Coptospora

No picture of Coptospora 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 Coptospora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BryophytaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 120 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 31 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 4 of 31 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 24 of 31 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 31 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 31 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 31 occurrencesMiocene164–159 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence149–144 Mya — about 1 occurrence144–139 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences139–133 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences133–128 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences128–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–107 Mya — about 7 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 8 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–35 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences35–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–8.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143.1 Mya23.04 Mya164 Mya9 Mya

31 occurrences of Coptospora 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

31 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

11 formations

Tambo — 27.34°S, 135.72°ETambo — 29.13°S, 140.88°ERunnymede — 37.37°S, 140.90°EKatrol — 23.30°N, 69.66°EKatrol — 23.27°N, 69.65°ELa Cantera — 33.00°S, 66.50°WCullen — 53.00°S, 68.67°WCullen — 52.87°S, 68.41°WWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.35°WBaqueró — 48.52°S, 69.17°WWhisky Bay — 63.86°S, 58.05°WBentiu — 11.03°N, 27.74°EAbu Gabra — 11.03°N, 27.74°EBhuj — 23.32°N, 69.77°E

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The named rock units Coptospora 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.

Coptospora and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

407 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Coptospora, 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

11 references

Each of the 31 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 Coptospora 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 Coptospora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Coptospora 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 itBryophyta through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dettmann 1963