Grimsdalea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArecaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 56 Mya.
13 occurrences of Grimsdalea 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
13 occurrences- Late Cretaceous54%
- Paleocene46%
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
7 formations
- Baraka Formation · Darfur Group3
- Zarga-Ghazal Formation · Darfur Group3
- Sohnari Formation · Ranikot Group3
- Aradeiba Formation · Darfur Group1
- Laki Formation1
- Lakhra Formation · Ranikot Group1
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The named rock units Grimsdalea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Grimsdalea and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Grimsdalea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
72 taxa- Longapertites8 sites
- Proxapertites assamicus6 sites
- Botryococcus5 sites
- Triporopollenites5 sites
- <Milfordia minima/hungarica>4 sites
- Cricotriporites4 sites
- Intrareticulitis brevis4 sites
- Retistephanocolpites4 sites
- Syncolporites4 sites
- Triatriopollenites4 sites
- "Myricaceoipollenites dubius"3 sites
- Callimothallus3 sites
- Gemmatriletes3 sites
- Inaperturopollenites3 sites
- Longapertites retipilatus3 sites
- Proxapertites operculatus3 sites
- Psilodiporites hammenii3 sites
- Zlivisporis blanensis3 sites
- Araucariacites australis2 sites
- Brevitricolpites2 sites
- Buttinia andreevi2 sites
- Couperipollis wodehousei2 sites
- Cupanieidites aff. flabelliformis2 sites
- Cupanieidites flaccidiformis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Grimsdalea, 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
2 references- Late Cretaceous spore-pollen zonation of the Central African Rift System (CARS), Kaikang Trough, Muglad Basin, South Sudan: angiosperm spread and links to the Elaterates Province7
- Palynological contribution to geologic mapping of coal-bearing upper Paleocene rocks in the lower Indus coal region, Pakistan6
Each of the 13 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
Media content0
No picture of Grimsdalea 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 Grimsdalea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Grimsdalea 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 itArecaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Germeraad et al. 1968