Acinosporites macrospinosus
No picture of Acinosporites macrospinosus was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Acinosporites macrospinosus 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. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
4 occurrences of Acinosporites macrospinosus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
4 occurrences- Devonian100%
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 Acinosporites macrospinosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Acinosporites macrospinosus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Acinosporites macrospinosus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
89 taxa- Calamospora4 sites
- Dibolisporites4 sites
- Punctatisporites4 sites
- Retusotriletes4 sites
- Rhabdosporites4 sites
- Apiculatisporis3 sites
- Auroraspora macromanifestus3 sites
- Calyptosporites velatus3 sites
- Trileites3 sites
- Acinosporites parviornatus2 sites
- Anapiculatisporites2 sites
- Cristatisporites2 sites
- Stenozonotriletes2 sites
- Acinosporites acanthomammillatus1 site
- Anaplanisporites parviconus1 site
- Ancyrospora ? ancyrea1 site
- Ancyrospora ancyrea1 site
- Ancyrospora brevispinosa1 site
- Ancyrospora carnarvonensis1 site
- Ancyrospora cf. langii1 site
- Ancyrospora convoluta1 site
- Ancyrospora longispinosa1 site
- Ancyrospora simplex1 site
- Ancyrospora sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Acinosporites macrospinosus, 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
2 references- Middle Old Red Sandstone Spore Assemblages from the Orcadian Basin North-East Scotland3
- Comparison of the Escuminac Formation ichthyofauna with other late Givetian/early Frasnian ichthyofaunas1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
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No picture of Acinosporites macrospinosus was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Acinosporites macrospinosus 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.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Acinosporites macrospinosus 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 itFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.