Penetetrapites

No picture of Penetetrapites 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 Penetetrapites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 49 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 23 of 49 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 24 of 49 occurrencesPaleocene121–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–71 Mya — about 5 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 6 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 6 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 10 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 11 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 5 occurrences113.2 Mya66 Mya121 Mya61 Mya

49 occurrences of Penetetrapites on record. 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

49 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

5 formations

Fort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WHell Creek — 46.35°N, 103.87°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WDinosaur Park — 50.82°N, 111.57°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.48°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.49°WJudith River — 48.60°N, 107.90°WCodó — 4.52°S, 44.03°W

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The named rock units Penetetrapites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

217 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Penetetrapites, 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

5 references

Each of the 49 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 Penetetrapites 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 Penetetrapites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Penetetrapites 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 itMagnoliophyta through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hedlund and Norris 1968