Retimonocolpites reticulatus

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 13 of 32 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 19 of 32 occurrencesLate Cretaceous127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 3 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence112–110 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 4 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 4 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 4 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences119.57 Mya83.6 Mya127 Mya71 Mya

32 occurrences of Retimonocolpites reticulatus 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

32 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

8 formations

Hidden Lake — 63.87°S, 57.99°WKharita — 29.00°N, 29.00°EAlamein — 29.00°N, 29.00°EZeweira — 31.56°N, 34.70°EYakhini — 31.56°N, 34.70°EBahariya — 29.00°N, 29.00°ERiachuelo — 10.65°S, 37.04°WCane Acre — 33.86°N, 79.77°W

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The named rock units Retimonocolpites reticulatus 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.

Retimonocolpites reticulatus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Retimonocolpites reticulatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

112 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Retimonocolpites reticulatus, 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 32 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 Retimonocolpites reticulatus 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 Retimonocolpites reticulatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Retimonocolpites reticulatus 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 itRetimonocolpites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Doyle 1975