Columinisporites sp.
No picture of Columinisporites sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Columinisporites 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. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At least 51 million years on record.
The record covers at least 306 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
3 occurrences of Columinisporites sp. on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
3 occurrences- Carboniferous67%
- Permian33%
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
3 formations
- Lost Branch Formation1
- Spoon Formation · Kewanee Group1
- Balfour Formation · Adelaide Group1
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The named rock units Columinisporites sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Columinisporites sp. and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Columinisporites sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
80 taxa- Anapiculatisporites2 sites
- Calamospora2 sites
- Columinisporites ovalis2 sites
- Convolutispora2 sites
- Cyclogranisporites2 sites
- Endosporites2 sites
- Florinites2 sites
- Granulatisporites2 sites
- Laevigatosporites2 sites
- Laevigatosporites vulgaris2 sites
- Lophotriletes2 sites
- Lycospora2 sites
- Microreticulatisporites2 sites
- Raistrickia2 sites
- Triquitrites2 sites
- Verrucosisporites2 sites
- Acanthotriletes1 site
- Ahrensisporites guerickei1 site
- Ahrensisporites sp.1 site
- Alisporites1 site
- Anthracoptilidae1 site
- Apiculatasporites1 site
- Apiculatisporis1 site
- Arberiella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Columinisporites 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
3 references- An autochthonous glossopterid flora with latest Permian palynomorphs and its depositional setting in the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone of the southern Karoo Basin, South Africa1
- Palynology of the Lost Branch Formation of Kansas--new insights on the major floral transition at the Middle-Upper Pennsylvanian boundary1
- Correlation and Palynology of Coals in the Carbondale and Spoon Formations (Pennsylvanian) of the Northeastern Part of the Illinois Basin1
Each of the 3 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 Columinisporites sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Columinisporites 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.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Columinisporites sp. 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.