Elaterites triferens
No picture of Elaterites triferens 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 Elaterites triferens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElateritesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 25 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Elaterites triferens on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
11 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Carbondale Formation · Kewanee Group7
- Spoon Formation · Kewanee Group4
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The named rock units Elaterites triferens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Elaterites triferens and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Elaterites triferens and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
78 taxa- Calamospora11 sites
- Crassispora plicata11 sites
- Endosporites11 sites
- Florinites11 sites
- Laevigatosporites11 sites
- Lycospora11 sites
- Punctatisporites11 sites
- Raistrickia11 sites
- Thymospora11 sites
- Triquitrites11 sites
- Cirratriradites10 sites
- Cyclogranisporites10 sites
- Granulatisporites10 sites
- Vesicaspora10 sites
- Vestispora fenestrata10 sites
- Wilsonites vesicatus10 sites
- Laevigatosporites vulgaris9 sites
- Microreticulatisporites9 sites
- Mooreisporites inusitatus9 sites
- Anapiculatisporites8 sites
- Laevigatosporites punctatus8 sites
- Alatisporites trialatus7 sites
- Granulatisporites parvus7 sites
- Paleospora fragila7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Elaterites triferens, 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 11 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Elaterites triferens 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 Elaterites triferens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elaterites triferens 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 itElaterites through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson 1943