Tricolpites microreticulatus

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 29 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 23 of 29 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 29 occurrencesPaleocene123–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 5 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 7 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 7 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence100.5 Mya66 Mya123 Mya60 Mya

29 occurrences of Tricolpites microreticulatus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

29 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

Hell Creek — 45.89°N, 104.55°WHell Creek — 46.29°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WHell Creek — 46.94°N, 107.35°WFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WScollard — 51.93°N, 112.83°WAgua Caliente — 7.21°S, 74.95°WOriente — 7.00°S, 75.00°W

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The named rock units Tricolpites microreticulatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tricolpites microreticulatus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Tricolpites microreticulatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

174 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Tricolpites microreticulatus, 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

8 references

Each of the 29 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 microreticulatus 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 microreticulatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tricolpites microreticulatus 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 itTricolpites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Belsky et al. 1965