Spirematospermum

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 71 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 71 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 71 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 28 of 71 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 40 of 71 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 71 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 71 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 5 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 7 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 10 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 17 occurrences12–9.4 Mya — about 8 occurrences9.4–6.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.6–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–960 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence72.2 Mya3.6 Mya85 Mya960 ka

71 occurrences of Spirematospermum 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

71 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

Headon Beds — 50.75°N, 1.60°WBovey Tracey Lignite — 50.58°N, 3.68°WBlack Creek — 35.35°N, 78.02°W

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The named rock units Spirematospermum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 68 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spirematospermum and its relatives

Miocene

Where Spirematospermum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

245 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Spirematospermum, 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

11 references

Each of the 71 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 Spirematospermum 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 Spirematospermum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Spirematospermum 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 itZingiberaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chandler 1925