Polycingulatisporites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 181 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 33 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 9 of 33 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 33 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 33 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 33 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 33 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 33 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 33 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 16 of 33 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 33 occurrences280–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–261 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences261–252 Mya — about 1 occurrence252–242 Mya — about 8 occurrences242–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–224 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences224–214 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences214–205 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences205–196 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences196–187 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences177–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–121 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences121–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–93 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences93–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–65 Mya — about 14 occurrences65–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences254.14 Mya72.2 Mya280 Mya0 Mya

33 occurrences of Polycingulatisporites 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

33 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

10 formations

Hell Creek — 46.29°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WFremouw — 84.00°S, 165.00°EScollard — 51.93°N, 112.83°WJudith River — 48.60°N, 107.90°WPrince Creek — 69.83°N, 151.52°WKukebai — 40.00°N, 100.00°EKachaike — 48.82°S, 72.12°WHuincul — 36.53°S, 69.65°WBhuj — 23.60°N, 69.00°ELa Anita — 49.81°S, 72.18°W

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The named rock units Polycingulatisporites 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.

Polycingulatisporites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Polycingulatisporites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

408 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Polycingulatisporites, 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 33 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

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

No 3D scan of Polycingulatisporites 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 itPteridophyta through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Simoncsics and Kedves 1961