Cyclogranisporites optimus
No picture of Cyclogranisporites optimus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cyclogranisporites optimus 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.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyclogranisporitesPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Cyclogranisporites optimus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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 Cyclogranisporites optimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cyclogranisporites optimus and its relatives
PermianWhere Cyclogranisporites optimus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
251 taxa- Latosporites3 sites
- Apiculatisporis weylandii2 sites
- Calamospora aplata2 sites
- Calamospora exila2 sites
- Cuneatisporites2 sites
- Cyclobaculisporites indicus2 sites
- Cyclobaculisporites minutus2 sites
- Cyclogranisporites gondwanensis2 sites
- Gondisporites2 sites
- Gondwanipollenites decorus2 sites
- Gondwanipollenites magnificus2 sites
- Hennellysporites diversiformis2 sites
- Hindipollenites oblongus2 sites
- Horriditriletes2 sites
- Horriditriletes brevis2 sites
- Horriditriletes curvibaculosus2 sites
- Indospora2 sites
- Indospora clara2 sites
- Indospora macula2 sites
- Laevigatosporites2 sites
- Lahirites2 sites
- Lahirites incertus2 sites
- Lahirites parvus2 sites
- Lahirites singularis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cyclogranisporites optimus, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cyclogranisporites optimus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cyclogranisporites optimus 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 Cyclogranisporites optimus 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 itCyclogranisporites through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bharadwaj and Salujha 1965