Maexisporites

No picture of Maexisporites was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Maexisporites 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. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Time the record covers

At least 79 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 35 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 21 of 35 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 35 occurrencesLate Cretaceous173–169 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences169–166 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–142 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences139–135 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 1 occurrence125–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 3 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 4 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 4 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 2 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–91 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 3 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 3 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence165.3 Mya85.7 Mya173 Mya70 Mya

35 occurrences of Maexisporites 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

35 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

8 formations

Rintoul Creek — 38.12°S, 146.50°EEumeralla — 38.77°S, 143.33°EEumeralla — 38.72°S, 143.33°EYimin — 48.42°N, 119.77°E"Wonthaggi" — 38.67°S, 145.67°EHassel — 79.79°N, 85.37°WDakota — 38.90°N, 98.86°WDamoguihe — 49.50°N, 119.52°EBagå — 55.17°N, 15.00°E

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The named rock units Maexisporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Maexisporites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Maexisporites, 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

8 references

Each of the 35 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

Media content0

No picture of Maexisporites was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Maexisporites 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.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Maexisporites 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 itFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Potonie 1956