Ruffordiaspora

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 19 of 27 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 27 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 27 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 27 occurrences139–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences125–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–118 Mya — about 2 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 3 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 6 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 3 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–93 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–32 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences121.4 Mya37.71 Mya139 Mya32 Mya

27 occurrences of Ruffordiaspora 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

27 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

10 formations

Kachaike — 49.06°S, 72.14°WKachaike — 48.82°S, 72.12°WRio Mayer — 49.06°S, 72.14°WRio Mayer — 48.82°S, 72.12°WPiedra Clavada — 49.53°S, 71.48°WLa Yesera — 26.00°S, 65.00°WThe Lagarcito — 31.70°S, 67.30°WAgua Caliente — 7.21°S, 74.95°WSpringill — 52.77°S, 68.70°WLago Colhué Huapi — 45.62°S, 68.43°WLa Anita — 49.81°S, 72.18°WCerro Fortaleza — 49.83°S, 72.12°W

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The named rock units Ruffordiaspora 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.

Ruffordiaspora and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

205 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Ruffordiaspora, 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

10 references

Each of the 27 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 Ruffordiaspora 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 Ruffordiaspora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ruffordiaspora 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 itSchizaeales through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dettmann and Clifford 1992