Falcisporites

No picture of Falcisporites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Falcisporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GymnospermaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 247 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 237 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 202 occurrencesPermian — about 155 of 202 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 29 of 202 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 18 of 202 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 202 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 2 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 4 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 4 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 4 occurrences292–289 Mya — about 4 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 4 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 4 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 4 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 4 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 4 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 4 occurrences277–274 Mya — about 4 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 3 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 3 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 3 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 3 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 3 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 3 occurrences262–259 Mya — about 7 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 19 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 19 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 30 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 40 occurrences251–249 Mya — about 4 occurrences249–246 Mya — about 5 occurrences246–244 Mya — about 7 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 7 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 3 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences283.3 Mya247 Mya300 Mya236 Mya

202 occurrences of Falcisporites 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

202 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

37 formations

Arqov — 31.67°N, 34.83°EArqov — 31.60°N, 34.70°EArqov — 31.67°N, 34.58°EGroedner Sandstein — 46.57°N, 11.67°EGroedner Sandstein — 46.35°N, 11.35°EGroedner Sandstein — 46.35°N, 11.40°EGroedner Sandstein — 46.68°N, 11.40°EGroedner Sandstein — 46.57°N, 11.82°EGevanim — 31.67°N, 34.83°EGevanim — 31.60°N, 34.70°EGevanim — 31.67°N, 34.58°EZechstein Limestone — 50.83°N, 20.67°ESa'ad — 31.67°N, 34.83°ESa'ad — 31.67°N, 34.58°EZafir — 31.67°N, 34.83°EZafir — 31.60°N, 34.70°ETerrigenious Series — 50.83°N, 20.67°EYamin — 31.60°N, 34.70°EYamin - Zafir — 31.67°N, 34.58°EPlaty Dolomite — 50.83°N, 20.67°ETop Terrigenous Series — 50.83°N, 20.67°ERa'af — 31.67°N, 34.58°ESheizaf — 31.67°N, 34.58°EBellerophon — 46.37°N, 11.65°EKovagoszolos — 46.08°N, 18.13°EUpper Anhydrite — 50.83°N, 20.67°ELower Buntsandstein — 50.83°N, 20.67°ELower Magnesium Limestone — 52.98°N, 1.27°WSaharonim — 31.67°N, 34.83°ESaharonim — 31.67°N, 34.58°EErez — 31.58°N, 34.67°EBalfour — 31.93°S, 24.88°EUm Irna — 31.63°N, 35.62°EKorpad — 46.15°N, 17.92°EBoda — 46.07°N, 18.00°E

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The named rock units Falcisporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 78 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Falcisporites and its relatives

Permian

Where Falcisporites and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

324 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 174 sites for Falcisporites, 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

14 references

Each of the 202 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 Falcisporites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Falcisporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Falcisporites was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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. Leschik 1956