Microcarpolithes
No picture of Microcarpolithes 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 Microcarpolithes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IsopteraPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 64 million years on record.
The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 61.66 Mya.
6 occurrences of Microcarpolithes 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
6 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
4 formations
- Dakota Formation2
- Scollard Formation · Edmonton Group1
- Arén Formation1
- "Wonthaggi" Formation · Strzelecki Group1
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The named rock units Microcarpolithes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Microcarpolithes and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Microcarpolithes and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
107 taxa- ? Ciclotus sp.1 site
- Agathoxylon1 site
- Albanerpetontidae1 site
- Amiiformes1 site
- Ammocycloloculina sp.1 site
- Ankylosauria1 site
- Anura1 site
- Arcellites disciformis1 site
- Atoposauridae1 site
- Avialae1 site
- Azolla1 site
- Balmeisporites1 site
- Bernissartiidae1 site
- Bisulcocypris1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Camptosauridae1 site
- Caturidae1 site
- Caudata1 site
- Chrysotheca1 site
- Chrysotheca diskoensis1 site
- Clavator1 site
- Coptothyris1 site
- Crocodylomorpha1 site
- Cteniogenys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Microcarpolithes, 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
6 references- Earliest trace fossil evidence of wood-eating termites (Isoptera) and mites (Oribatida) in circumpolar environments of Australia1
- A Lower Cretaceous Lagerstätte from France: a taphonomic overview of the Angeac‐Charente vertebrate assemblage1
- Megaspores and other dispersed plant remains from the Dakota Formation (Cenomanian) of Kansas, U.S.A.1
- El Maastrichtiense lagunar ("Garumniense") de Isona [The lagoonal Maastrichtian ("Garumnian") of Isona]1
- Megaspores and other palynomorphs of the Brazeau Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Nordegg Area, Alberta1
- Megaspores and other fossils in the Dakota Formation (Cenomanian) of Iowa, (U.S.A.)1
Each of the 6 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 Microcarpolithes 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 Microcarpolithes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Microcarpolithes 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itIsoptera through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vangerow 1954