Equisetosporites ambiguus
No picture of Equisetosporites ambiguus 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 ambiguus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EquisetosporitesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Equisetosporites ambiguus 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
5 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Equisetosporites ambiguus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Equisetosporites ambiguus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Equisetosporites ambiguus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Cretacaeiporites mullerii5 sites
- Deltoidospora diaphana5 sites
- Dictyophyllidites harrisii5 sites
- Ephedripites5 sites
- Foveomorphomonocolpites rashadi5 sites
- Nyssapollenites albertensis5 sites
- Tnporites spp.5 sites
- Tricolpites5 sites
- Tricolporopollenites5 sites
- Cyathldites australis4 sites
- Deltoidospora hallii4 sites
- Droseridites4 sites
- Ephedripites jansonii4 sites
- Foveotricolpites giganteus4 sites
- Retimonocolpites4 sites
- Rousea georgensis4 sites
- Rousea miculipollis4 sites
- Cretacaeiporites scabratus3 sites
- Foveotricolpites3 sites
- Papillopollis vancampoae3 sites
- Steevesipollenites3 sites
- Tetracolpites3 sites
- Cibotiumspora juncta2 sites
- Cicatricosisporites orbiculatus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Equisetosporites ambiguus, 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 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Equisetosporites ambiguus 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 ambiguus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Equisetosporites ambiguus 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 itEquisetosporites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hedlund 1966