Contagisporites spp.
No picture of Contagisporites spp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Contagisporites spp. 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 6.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 372.15 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 346.7 Mya.
5 occurrences of Contagisporites spp. 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
5 occurrences- Devonian61%
- Carboniferous39%
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
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The named rock units Contagisporites spp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Contagisporites spp. and its relatives
DevonianWhere Contagisporites spp. and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Ancyrospora furcula4 sites
- Grandispora4 sites
- Hystricosporites delectabilis4 sites
- Ancyrospora ? capillata3 sites
- Hystricosporites cf. multifurcatus3 sites
- Hystricosporites multifurcatus3 sites
- Anapiculatisporites2 sites
- Ancyrospora ancyrea2 sites
- Ancyrospora angulata2 sites
- Ancyrospora hookensis2 sites
- Apiculiretusispora2 sites
- Archaeozonotriletes variabilis2 sites
- Auritolagenicula auritula2 sites
- Auritolagenicula rugulata2 sites
- Calamospora2 sites
- Contagisporites optivus2 sites
- Geminospora2 sites
- Hystricosporites pauculus2 sites
- Hystricosporites winslovii2 sites
- Punctatisporites2 sites
- Retusotriletes2 sites
- Rhabdosporites2 sites
- Triangulartisporites ? leinsterensis2 sites
- Verrucosisporites2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Contagisporites spp., 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- Megaspores from the uppermost Devonian (Strunian) of Hook Head, County Wexford, Ireland3
- Comparison of the Escuminac Formation ichthyofauna with other late Givetian/early Frasnian ichthyofaunas1
- Givetian and Frasnian spores from the Key Point well, Parry Islands, Arctic Canada1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Contagisporites spp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Contagisporites spp. 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 Contagisporites spp. 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.