Proxapertites operculatus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 5 of 251 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 120 of 251 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 126 of 251 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 251 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 7 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 9 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 9 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 9 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 9 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 23 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 31 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 27 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 12 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 12 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 12 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 12 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 12 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 9 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 8 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 15 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 15 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 6 occurrences66 Mya37.71 Mya73 Mya33.1 Mya

251 occurrences of Proxapertites operculatus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

251 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

20 formations

Misoa — 10.88°N, 72.38°WYaw — 23.25°N, 94.25°EYaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°EMirador — 11.00°N, 72.38°WMirador — 10.88°N, 72.38°WSohnari — 25.12°N, 68.12°ESohnari — 25.25°N, 68.33°ESohnari — 25.17°N, 68.50°EGuasare — 11.00°N, 72.38°WArcillas de el Limbo — 4.90°N, 73.02°WBara — 25.73°N, 68.07°EBara — 25.75°N, 68.25°EBara — 24.80°N, 67.97°EBara — 25.89°N, 67.92°ELakhra — 25.75°N, 68.25°ELakhra — 25.25°N, 68.33°ELa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WLa Colonia — 42.50°S, 66.50°WLa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.75°WLa Colonia — 42.97°S, 67.54°WLos Cuervos — 4.90°N, 73.02°WLos Cuervos — 8.98°N, 73.00°WSan Fernando — 4.90°N, 73.02°WAreniscas de el Limbo — 4.90°N, 73.02°WMirador — 7.70°N, 72.62°WMirador — 8.98°N, 73.00°WHangu — 32.85°N, 71.15°ECarbonera — 7.70°N, 72.62°WLa Paz — 7.33°N, 73.33°WCerro Bororó — 43.74°S, 67.25°WBaraka — 9.35°N, 29.13°EChorrillo — 50.51°S, 72.56°WSalamanca — 47.53°S, 68.17°W

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The named rock units Proxapertites operculatus 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 operculatus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Proxapertites operculatus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

568 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 121 sites for Proxapertites operculatus, 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

12 references

Each of the 251 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

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

No 3D scan of Proxapertites operculatus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Van der Hammen 1956