Equisetosporites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 248 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Permian — about 1 of 251 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 251 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 251 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 251 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 251 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 251 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 251 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 177 of 251 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 24 of 251 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 251 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 251 occurrencesOligocene — about 15 of 251 occurrencesMiocene — about 31 of 251 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 251 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 251 occurrences270–261 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences261–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences234–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–216 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences216–207 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences207–198 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences144–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–126 Mya — about 2 occurrences126–117 Mya — about 53 occurrences117–108 Mya — about 104 occurrences108–99 Mya — about 18 occurrences99–90 Mya — about 6 occurrences90–81 Mya — about 6 occurrences81–72 Mya — about 6 occurrences72–63 Mya — about 7 occurrences63–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–18 Mya — about 26 occurrences18–9.0 Mya — about 15 occurrences9.0–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences259.857 Mya11.63 Mya270 Mya0 Mya

251 occurrences of Equisetosporites 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

251 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

34 formations

Riachuelo — 10.65°S, 37.04°WMuribeca — 10.65°S, 37.04°WOcal — 2.62°N, 75.53°WMonte León — 47.08°S, 66.39°WMonte León — 47.09°S, 66.01°WMonte León — 50.27°S, 68.86°WMonte León — 50.23°S, 68.63°WMonte León — 50.13°S, 68.40°WMonte León — 50.17°S, 68.43°WMonte León — 47.03°S, 66.80°WChenque — 45.86°S, 67.60°WChenque — 45.30°S, 69.03°WCaballos — 2.62°N, 75.53°WCodó — 4.52°S, 44.03°WHuincul — 36.53°S, 69.65°WAbu Roash — 29.00°N, 29.00°EChiquimil — 26.83°S, 66.00°WBajo de la Carpa — 36.53°S, 69.65°WLa Ollita — 29.54°S, 69.53°WDinosaur Park — 50.82°N, 111.57°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.49°WAlpujarra — 2.62°N, 75.53°WHelez — 31.56°N, 34.70°EMonte Leon — 47.08°S, 66.39°WPuerto Madryn — 42.57°S, 64.27°WDel Buey — 28.92°S, 67.52°WChinle — 35.20°N, 108.20°WFlowerpot — 36.30°N, 98.53°WQueimadas — 3.69°S, 44.56°WTelamim — 31.56°N, 34.70°EYakhini — 31.56°N, 34.70°EHuitrin or Rayoso — 38.38°S, 70.03°W

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The named rock units Equisetosporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Equisetosporites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

617 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Equisetosporites, 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

37 references

Each of the 251 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. 25 further references are 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Equisetosporites 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. Daugherty 1941