Proteacidites obscurus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProteaciditesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 129 ka.
11 occurrences of Proteacidites obscurus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
11 occurrences- Eocene8%
- Oligocene40%
- Miocene44%
- Pleistocene9%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Proteacidites obscurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Proteacidites obscurus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Proteacidites obscurus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
348 taxa- Laevigatosporites ovatus7 sites
- Phyllocladidites mawsonii7 sites
- Cupressaceae6 sites
- Microcachryidites antarcticus6 sites
- Myrtaceidites6 sites
- Nothofagidites6 sites
- Podocarpidites6 sites
- Gephyrapollenites5 sites
- Haloragacidites harrisii5 sites
- Ilexpollenites anguloclavatus5 sites
- Malvacipollis subtilis5 sites
- Nothofagus5 sites
- Periporopollenites demarcatus5 sites
- Podosporites microsaccatus5 sites
- Allocasuarina4 sites
- Baeckea4 sites
- Banksieaeidites4 sites
- Banksieaephyllum4 sites
- Cunoniaceae4 sites
- Cyatheacidites annulatus4 sites
- Cyathidites4 sites
- Cyperaceae4 sites
- Dacrycarpites australiensis4 sites
- Elaeocarpaceae4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Proteacidites obscurus, 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
7 references- The Oligo-Miocene coal floras of southeastern Australia3
- Palinomorph assemblage of the Chenque Formation, Late Oligocene?- Miocene from Golfo San Jorge Basin, Patagonia, Argentina, Part 4: polycolporate and porate pollen2
- Palinoestratigrafía de la Formación San Julián en el área de Playa La Mina (provincia de Santa Cruz), Oligoceno de la Cuenca Austral2
- Bioestratigrafía de polen y esporas de la Formación Chenque, Oligoceno tardío?-Mioceno de las provincias de Chubut y Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Argentina1
- A Late Oligocene‒ Early Miocene cool climate flora in Tasmania1
- A fossil flora from rafted Plio Pleistocene mudstones at Regatta Point, Tasmania1
- Reconstruction of the Oligocene vegetation at Pioneer, northeast Tasmania1
Each of the 11 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 Proteacidites obscurus 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 Proteacidites obscurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Proteacidites obscurus 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 itProteacidites through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cookson 1950