Elaterocolpites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
elateratePBDB
Sits inside
GnetalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 35 of 61 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 26 of 61 occurrencesLate Cretaceous127–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 3 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 4 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 4 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 4 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 4 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 3 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 3 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 3 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 4 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 5 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 5 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 5 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 5 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 2 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113.2 Mya89.8 Mya126.6 Mya82.8 Mya

61 occurrences of Elaterocolpites 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

61 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

14 formations

Agua Doce — 3.69°S, 44.56°WQueimadas — 3.69°S, 44.56°WPreguicas — 3.69°S, 44.56°WApollonian — 4.98°N, 3.02°WBahariya — 30.00°N, 28.00°EBahariya — 29.86°N, 28.74°EBarreirinhas — 2.75°S, 42.82°WAgua Caliente — 7.20°S, 74.95°WAgua Caliente — 7.18°S, 74.95°WSafaniya — 28.38°N, 48.92°EBima Sandstone — 9.83°N, 10.90°EYolde — 9.83°N, 10.90°EAbu Roash — 30.00°N, 28.00°ETalme Yafe — 31.65°N, 34.61°ERaya — 7.19°S, 74.95°WKharita — 29.86°N, 28.74°E

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The named rock units Elaterocolpites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elaterocolpites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

260 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Elaterocolpites, 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

13 references

Each of the 61 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Elaterocolpites 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 Elaterocolpites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Elaterocolpites 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 itGnetales through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jardiné and Magloire 1965