Florissantia speirii
No picture of Florissantia speirii was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Florissantia speirii itself, so it was not used. 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 Florissantia speirii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FlorissantiaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
9 occurrences of Florissantia speirii on record. 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
9 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Florissantia speirii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
185 taxa- Abies2 sites
- Angiospermae2 sites
- Asterocarpinus perplexans2 sites
- Carya2 sites
- Cedrela2 sites
- Cedrelospermum2 sites
- Crataegus2 sites
- Diplodipelta reniptera n. gen.2 sites
- Hydrangea2 sites
- Mahonia2 sites
- Platanus2 sites
- Quercus2 sites
- Rhus2 sites
- Ribes2 sites
- Torreya2 sites
- Acer1 site
- Acer cranei1 site
- Acer florissanti1 site
- Acer glabroides1 site
- Acer macginitiei1 site
- Acer oregonianum1 site
- Ailanthus americana1 site
- Alnus1 site
- Amelanchier scudderi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Florissantia speirii, 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
3 references- The Oligocene Bridge Creek flora of the John Day Formation, Oregon6
- Flowers, fruits, and pollen of Florissantia, an extinct Malvalean genus from the Eocene and Oligocene of western North America2
- Update on the Megafossil Flora of Florissant, Colorado1
Each of the 9 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
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No picture of Florissantia speirii was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Florissantia speirii itself, so it was not used.
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 Florissantia speirii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Florissantia speirii 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 itFlorissantia through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Manchester 1992