Auroraspora sp.

No picture of Auroraspora sp. was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Auroraspora sp. 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.

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 346.7 Mya.

Devonian — about 54 of 56 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 56 occurrencesCarboniferous394–393 Mya — about 2 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 5 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 5 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 5 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 15 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 9 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 6 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences380–378 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences377–375 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences375–373 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences372–370 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences370–368 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences367–365 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences364–362 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences359–357 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences357–355 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences354–352 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences351–349 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387.95 Mya358.86 Mya394.4 Mya345.8 Mya

56 occurrences of Auroraspora sp. 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

56 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

7 formations

Venango — 41.90°N, 79.90°WUpper Hecla Bay--Beverly Inlet--Parry Islands — 76.23°N, 104.25°WFairfield — 18.12°S, 125.33°EFairfield — 17.96°S, 125.28°EHecla Bay — 76.23°N, 104.25°WPanther Mountain — 42.43°N, 74.43°WRio Chitagá — 8.00°N, 73.00°WEscuminac — 48.11°N, 66.40°W

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The named rock units Auroraspora sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 44 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Auroraspora sp. and its relatives

Devonian

Where Auroraspora sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

186 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Auroraspora sp., 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 56 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 Auroraspora sp. was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Auroraspora sp. 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.