Tetracolporopollenites
Searched as Tetracolporopollenites prolatus. The Paleobiology Database treats Tetracolporopollenites as the accepted name.
No picture of Tetracolporopollenites was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Tetracolporopollenites firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Tetracolporopollenites on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
9 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Tetracolporopollenites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tetracolporopollenites and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tetracolporopollenites and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
663 taxa- Triatriopollenites54 sites
- Momipites35 sites
- Triporopollenites34 sites
- Siltaria30 sites
- Platycaryapollenites29 sites
- Plicatopollis29 sites
- Laevigatosporites27 sites
- Mauritiidites franciscoi franciscoi27 sites
- Monocolpopollenites ovatus26 sites
- Tricolporopollenites26 sites
- Intratriporopollenites25 sites
- Inaperturopollenites24 sites
- Laevigatosporites tibuensis24 sites
- Polyporopollenites24 sites
- Varia indet.24 sites
- Carya23 sites
- Ilexpollenites23 sites
- Monocolpopollenites23 sites
- <Leiotriletes/Toroisporis group>22 sites
- Polypodiisporites22 sites
- Pseudolaesopollis ventosa22 sites
- Punctilongisulcites microechinatus22 sites
- Symplocos22 sites
- <Momipites-Plicatopollis-Platycaryapollenites complex>21 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 93 sites for Tetracolporopollenites, 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
1 referenceEach of the 9 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
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No picture of Tetracolporopollenites was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Tetracolporopollenites firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Tetracolporopollenites 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 itFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pflug and Thomson 1953