Tricolporites

Tricolporites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MagnoliopsidaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 97 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 15 of 131 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 62 of 131 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 16 of 131 occurrencesEocene — about 8 of 131 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 131 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 22 of 131 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 131 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 131 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 4 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 4 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 6 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 10 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 5 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 10 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 12 occurrences83–79 Mya — about 4 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 4 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 5 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 8 occurrences67–63 Mya — about 7 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 7 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 5 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–13 Mya — about 9 occurrences13–9.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113.2 Mya15.98 Mya124 Mya1 Mya

131 occurrences of Tricolporites 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

131 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

25 formations

Hidden Lake — 63.87°S, 57.99°WBima — 12.08°N, 13.14°EBathurst Island — 11.79°S, 130.23°EBathurst Island — 11.78°S, 130.35°EChorrillo — 50.51°S, 72.56°WMcNairy — 36.42°N, 89.56°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.83°WKerrikerri — 12.08°N, 13.14°ECullen — 52.87°S, 68.41°WHuitrera — 40.67°S, 71.08°WHuitrera — 41.04°S, 71.20°WPeedee — 32.89°N, 80.36°WCerro Fortaleza — 49.83°S, 72.12°WLoreto — 53.13°S, 70.97°WMacquarie Harbor — 42.17°S, 145.36°ECerro Dorotea — 51.58°S, 72.34°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.32°S, 56.87°WLa Meseta — 64.27°S, 56.67°WSobral — 64.28°S, 56.70°WSanta Marta — 64.27°S, 57.30°WClearwater — 56.75°N, 111.37°WDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°EWarkalli — 8.74°N, 76.70°EAguja — 28.94°N, 103.37°WBlack Creek — 32.89°N, 80.36°WLa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°W

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The named rock units Tricolporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tricolporites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Tricolporites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,110 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Tricolporites, 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

29 references

Each of the 131 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. 17 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Tricolporites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMagnoliopsida through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cookson 1947