Tapeinidium

Tapeinidium

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 35 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–82 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101.2 Mya65.3 Mya

4 occurrences of Tapeinidium on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

4 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

Milk River — 49.19°N, 111.89°WMilk River — 49.08°N, 111.41°WMilk River — 49.08°N, 111.46°WFrontier — 41.79°N, 110.54°W

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

Tapeinidium and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

4 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tapeinidium, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Tapeinidium

Credit
naturewatchwidow
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tapeinidium 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 itLindsaeaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Christensen 1906