Ricciopsis

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 153 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous294–288 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences288–281 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences281–275 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences275–269 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–140 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences140–134 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences134–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences122–116 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences274.4 Mya121.4 Mya294 Mya110 Mya

3 occurrences of Ricciopsis on record, most of them in the Early 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

3 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

3 formations

Kemerovskaya Suite — 54.40°N, 83.30°EKirkwood — 33.50°S, 25.50°EAnfiteatro de Ticó — 48.51°S, 69.24°W

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The named rock units Ricciopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ricciopsis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Ricciopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ricciopsis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 Ricciopsis 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 Ricciopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ricciopsis 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 itMarchantiales through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lundblad 1954