Gondisporites
No picture of Gondisporites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Gondisporites 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.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlantaePBDB
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 Gondisporites 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Gondisporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gondisporites and its relatives
PermianWhere Gondisporites and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
291 taxa- Laevigatosporites4 sites
- Leiotriletes4 sites
- Lunatisporites4 sites
- Microfoveolatispora4 sites
- Sulcatisporites4 sites
- Cyclobaculisporites minutus3 sites
- Cyclogranisporites gondwanensis3 sites
- Horriditriletes curvibaculosus3 sites
- Indospora3 sites
- Latosporites3 sites
- Vesicaspora3 sites
- Welwitschiapites tenuis3 sites
- Acanthotriletes2 sites
- Calamospora aplata2 sites
- Calamospora exila2 sites
- Cuneatisporites2 sites
- Cyclobaculisporites indicus2 sites
- Cyclogranisporites2 sites
- Cyclogranisporites optimus2 sites
- Decussatisporites lucifer2 sites
- Densipollenites2 sites
- Densipollenites indicus2 sites
- Gnetaceaepollenites2 sites
- Gondwanipollenites decorus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Gondisporites, 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 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.
Media and terms
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No picture of Gondisporites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Gondisporites 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.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPlantae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bharadwaj 1962