Retistephanocolpites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 178 occurrencesPaleocene — about 154 of 178 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 22 of 178 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 178 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 178 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 178 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 13 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 31 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 32 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 33 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 34 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 12 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–8.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.3–6.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.66 Mya11.63 Mya67 Mya4 Mya

178 occurrences of Retistephanocolpites 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

178 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

14 formations

Sohnari — 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°EBara — 25.73°N, 68.07°EBara — 25.75°N, 68.25°EBara — 24.80°N, 67.97°EBara — 25.89°N, 67.92°ELakhra — 25.73°N, 68.07°ELakhra — 25.75°N, 68.25°ESan Fernando — 4.90°N, 73.02°WArcillas de el Limbo — 4.90°N, 73.02°WMirador — 7.70°N, 72.62°WMirador — 8.98°N, 73.00°WAreniscas de el Limbo — 4.90°N, 73.02°WLos Cuervos — 4.90°N, 73.02°WLos Cuervos — 8.98°N, 73.00°WPozo — 7.33°S, 74.95°WHangu — 32.85°N, 71.15°ECarbonera — 7.70°N, 72.62°WChiquimil — 26.83°S, 66.00°WYaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°ELaki — 25.73°N, 68.07°E

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The named rock units Retistephanocolpites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Retistephanocolpites and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Retistephanocolpites and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

324 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Retistephanocolpites, 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

Each of the 178 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 Retistephanocolpites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Retistephanocolpites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Retistephanocolpites 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itMagnoliophyta through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leidelmeyer 1966