Tricolpites

Searched as Tricolpites hians. The Paleobiology Database treats Tricolpites as the accepted name.

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 132 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 82 of 132 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 48 of 132 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 132 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 3 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 15 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 15 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 14 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 13 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 13 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 10 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 4 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 4 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences72.2 Mya56 Mya85 Mya33 Mya

132 occurrences of Tricolpites 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

132 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

5 formations

Fort Union — 46.48°N, 105.67°WFort Union — 44.71°N, 106.17°WFort Union — 44.83°N, 106.09°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 106.06°WFort Union — 46.60°N, 105.68°WFort Union — 45.59°N, 105.68°WFort Union — 45.55°N, 105.72°WFort Union — 45.53°N, 105.64°WWasatch — 44.63°N, 106.17°WWasatch — 44.71°N, 106.17°WTurtel Mountain — 49.06°N, 100.56°WIren Dabasu — 43.53°N, 111.73°EYuliangzi — 48.39°N, 130.15°E

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The named rock units Tricolpites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tricolpites and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Tricolpites and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

1,397 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 491 sites for Tricolpites, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

5 references

Each of the 132 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 Tricolpites 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 Tricolpites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tricolpites was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itGunnerales through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Couper 1953