Toroisporis

No picture of Toroisporis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Toroisporis 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 least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 12 of 28 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 13 of 28 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 28 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 28 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 28 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 4 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 6 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 6 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66 Mya33.9 Mya85 Mya22 Mya

28 occurrences of Toroisporis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

28 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

Fort Union — 46.32°N, 103.85°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WHell Creek — 46.32°N, 103.85°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WArctowski Cove — 62.17°S, 58.49°W

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The named rock units Toroisporis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Toroisporis and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Toroisporis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

111 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Toroisporis, 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

4 references

Each of the 28 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 Toroisporis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Toroisporis 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 Toroisporis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Krutzsch 1959