Sabalites

Sabalites

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 37 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 20 of 37 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 37 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 12 of 37 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 37 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 37 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 37 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–79 Mya — about 3 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 3 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–50 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–6.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.7–3.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72.2 Mya23.04 Mya102 Mya3 Mya

37 occurrences of Sabalites 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

37 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

Eagle — 44.98°N, 108.87°WMcRae — 33.13°N, 107.25°WLance — 43.08°N, 104.63°WGrey Garumnian — 42.18°N, 1.79°ENadu — 22.17°N, 108.00°EChangchang — 20.00°N, 110.50°EFrontier — 41.79°N, 110.54°WNeslen — 39.04°N, 109.72°WDenver — 38.85°N, 104.66°WLaramie — 39.49°N, 103.88°WBibai — 43.50°N, 142.00°EBlack Creek — 33.53°N, 81.83°WDensuș-Ciula — 45.58°N, 22.79°ETalarn — 42.14°N, 1.04°ENiubao — 32.03°N, 89.77°EGuchengzi — 41.84°N, 123.90°EHuangniuling — 21.65°N, 110.90°ELiuqu — 29.17°N, 87.75°EGreen River — 41.84°N, 110.70°WRipley — 36.23°N, 88.20°W

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The named rock units Sabalites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sabalites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Sabalites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

498 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Sabalites, 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

20 references

Each of the 37 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. 8 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Sabalites

Credit
James St. John
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sabalites 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 itCoryphoideae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Saporta 1865