Proxapertites

Searched as Proxapertites assamicus. The Paleobiology Database treats Proxapertites as the accepted name.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AraceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At most 10 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 75 occurrencesPaleocene — about 75 of 75 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 75 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 3 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 3 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 3 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 3 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 3 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 3 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences66.5 Mya55.5 Mya

75 occurrences of Proxapertites on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

75 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

Bara — 25.73°N, 68.07°EBara — 25.75°N, 68.25°EBara — 24.80°N, 67.97°EBara — 25.89°N, 67.92°ESohnari — 25.73°N, 68.07°ESohnari — 25.75°N, 68.25°ESohnari — 25.12°N, 68.12°ESohnari — 25.25°N, 68.33°ESohnari — 25.17°N, 68.50°ELakhra — 25.73°N, 68.07°ELakhra — 25.75°N, 68.25°ELakhra — 24.80°N, 67.97°ELakhra — 25.25°N, 68.33°EHangu — 32.85°N, 71.15°ELaki — 25.73°N, 68.07°E

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The named rock units Proxapertites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Proxapertites and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Proxapertites and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

828 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 188 sites for Proxapertites, 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

2 references

Each of the 75 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Proxapertites 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 itAraceae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Van der Hammen 1956