Droseridites

Droseridites is a genus of extinct plants of possible droseracean or nepenthacean affinity. It is a form taxon known only from fossil pollen. Species assigned to this genus originate from numerous regions of the world, including Europe, India, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Kerguelen Islands.

Droseridites

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DroseraceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 57 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 15 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 12 of 15 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 15 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 15 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 15 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 3 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 5 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113.2 Mya56 Mya128 Mya32 Mya

15 occurrences of Droseridites 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

15 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

6 formations

Abu Roash — 30.93°N, 26.28°EAbu Roash — 30.00°N, 28.00°EAbu Roash — 29.00°N, 29.00°EOldman — 50.76°N, 111.39°WPinodiga — 10.04°N, 11.20°EAbu Gabra — 11.03°N, 27.74°ELa Meseta — 64.27°S, 56.67°WCherra — 25.32°N, 91.73°E

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The named rock units Droseridites 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.

Droseridites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Droseridites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

172 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Droseridites, 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 15 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 Droseridites

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Droseridites 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDroseraceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Potonié 1960