Illenites elegans
No picture of Illenites elegans was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Illenites elegans firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Illenites elegans on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
8 occurrences- Permian100%
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
- Terrigenious Series Formation · Werra Group2
- Lower Anhydrate Formation · Werra Group1
- Platy Dolomite Formation · Strassfort Group1
- Main Anhydrite Formation · Leine Group1
- Lower Anhydrate A1d Formation · Werra Group1
- Upper Anhydrite Formation · Werra Group1
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The named rock units Illenites elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Illenites elegans and its relatives
PermianWhere Illenites elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Cycadopites8 sites
- Illenites unicus8 sites
- Jugasporites delasaucei8 sites
- Klausipollenites8 sites
- Limitisporites8 sites
- Lueckisporites8 sites
- Lunatisporites8 sites
- Pollenites8 sites
- Calamaspora sp.7 sites
- Cordaitina sp.7 sites
- Illenites sp.7 sites
- Nuskoisporites7 sites
- Platysaccus7 sites
- Potonieisporites7 sites
- Sporites7 sites
- Triadispora7 sites
- Vittatina7 sites
- Cordaitina donetziana6 sites
- Falcisporites6 sites
- Gardenasporites sp.6 sites
- Perisaccus granulatus6 sites
- Perisaccus sp.6 sites
- Protohaploxypinus6 sites
- Calamaspora plicata5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Illenites elegans, 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 8 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Illenites elegans was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Illenites elegans firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Illenites elegans 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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What may have been alongside itFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.