Scirpitis

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–8.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.9–7.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.4–6.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.0–4.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23.04 Mya11.63 Mya48.9 Mya4.5 Mya

3 occurrences of Scirpitis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

2 formations

Chiquimil — 26.64°S, 66.05°WChiquimil — 27.19°S, 66.84°WSarmiento — 45.32°S, 67.76°W

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

Scirpitis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Scirpitis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Scirpitis, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Scirpitis 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCyperaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dusén 1908