Osculapollis vestibulus
No picture of Osculapollis vestibulus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Osculapollis vestibulus 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.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OsculapollisPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya.
16 occurrences of Osculapollis vestibulus 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
16 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Osculapollis vestibulus 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.
Osculapollis vestibulus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Osculapollis vestibulus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- <New Genus D sp. A>15 sites
- <New Genus D sp. D>15 sites
- Complexiopollis15 sites
- Complexiopollis abditus15 sites
- Labrapollis <sp. A>15 sites
- Labrapollis <sp. D>15 sites
- Momipites15 sites
- Pseudoplicapollis15 sites
- Trudopollis15 sites
- <New Genus D sp. B>13 sites
- Minorpollis <sp. C>13 sites
- Minorpollis minima13 sites
- Plicapollis13 sites
- Ulmaceapites <sp. A>13 sites
- Minorpollis <sp. A>12 sites
- Momipites fragilis12 sites
- Labrapollis <sp. B>11 sites
- Choanopollenites10 sites
- Labrapollis <sp. C>10 sites
- Perucipollis <sp. A>10 sites
- Complexiopollis exigua9 sites
- Pseudoplicapollis longiannulata9 sites
- <Triporate type 5>8 sites
- Heidelbergipollis <sp. A>8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Osculapollis vestibulus, 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 16 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
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No picture of Osculapollis vestibulus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Osculapollis vestibulus 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 Osculapollis vestibulus 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 itOsculapollis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ross 1949)