Gigantosporites aletoides
No picture of Gigantosporites aletoides was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Gigantosporites aletoides 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. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 47 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Gigantosporites aletoides 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Gigantosporites aletoides 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.
Gigantosporites aletoides and its relatives
PermianWhere Gigantosporites aletoides and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Falcisporites4 sites
- Jugasporites delasaucei4 sites
- Klausipollenites4 sites
- Lueckisporites4 sites
- Paravesicaspora splendens4 sites
- Platysaccus4 sites
- Densoisporites3 sites
- Ephedripites3 sites
- Leiosphaerids X3 sites
- Limitisporites3 sites
- Lunatisporites3 sites
- Nuskoisporites3 sites
- Perisaccus granulosus3 sites
- Protohaploxypinus3 sites
- Sahnites3 sites
- Scutasporites unicus3 sites
- Strotersporites3 sites
- Alisporites2 sites
- Concavisporites2 sites
- Corisaccites2 sites
- Crucisaccites2 sites
- Fungi2 sites
- Gardenasporites leonardi2 sites
- Gardenasporites oberrauchi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Gigantosporites aletoides, 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
2 references- Sedimentology, palynostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of a continental to shallow-marine rift-related succession: Upper Permian of the eastern Southern Alps (Italy)3
- Sporen aus dem Suedalpinen Perm (vergleichsstudie fuer die Gliederung nordalpiner Salzserien)1
Each of the 4 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.
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No picture of Gigantosporites aletoides was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Gigantosporites aletoides 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.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Gigantosporites aletoides 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 PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.