Thalassotaenia notophyllum
No picture of Thalassotaenia notophyllum 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 Thalassotaenia notophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThalassotaeniaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Thalassotaenia notophyllum 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Thalassotaenia notophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Thalassotaenia notophyllum and its relatives
MioceneWhere Thalassotaenia notophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Arecipites cf. otagoensis1 site
- Chenopodipollis chenopodiaceoides1 site
- Cyatheacidites annulatus1 site
- Cymathiosphaera sp.1 site
- Dryptopollenites sp.1 site
- Equisetosporites claricristatus1 site
- Margocolporites vanwijhei1 site
- Mutisiapollis viteauensis1 site
- Nothofagidites saraensis1 site
- Peromonolites vellosus1 site
- Proteacidites1 site
- Rhoipites1 site
- Senipites1 site
- Striatricolporites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Thalassotaenia notophyllum, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Thalassotaenia notophyllum 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 Thalassotaenia notophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Thalassotaenia notophyllum 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 itThalassotaenia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Panti et al. 2025