Molaspora lobata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MolasporaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 38 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 32 of 38 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 38 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 38 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 38 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–98 Mya — about 6 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 6 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 3 occurrences93–90 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–83 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 5 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–60 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100.5 Mya59.24 Mya108 Mya32 Mya

38 occurrences of Molaspora lobata 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

38 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

11 formations

Dakota — 42.50°N, 96.40°WDakota — 38.88°N, 98.70°WDakota — 38.73°N, 98.23°WDakota — 38.83°N, 98.47°WDakota — 38.90°N, 98.86°WLa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.75°WLa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WLa Colonia — 43.02°S, 67.66°WLa Colonia — 42.97°S, 67.54°W"Aachenian" — 51.00°N, 5.87°EEureka Sound — 78.18°N, 99.72°WEureka Sound — 78.17°N, 99.50°WBrazeau — 52.72°N, 116.00°WEumeralla — 38.77°S, 143.25°EDunvegan — 55.92°N, 118.59°WEutaw-equivalent — 32.40°N, 84.83°WTamagawa — 40.08°N, 141.80°ELanden — 51.28°N, 6.08°ELago Colhué Huapi — 45.63°S, 68.45°W

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The named rock units Molaspora lobata 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.

Molaspora lobata and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Molaspora lobata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

248 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Molaspora lobata, 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

15 references

Each of the 38 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 Molaspora lobata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Molaspora lobata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Molaspora lobata 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 itMolaspora through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall and Peake 1968