Microreticulatisporites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 326 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 139 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 66 of 139 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 139 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 139 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 139 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 139 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 139 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 139 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 139 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 139 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 139 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 139 occurrencesEocene — about 47 of 139 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 139 occurrences395–383 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences383–370 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences334–321 Mya — about 2 occurrences321–309 Mya — about 26 occurrences309–297 Mya — about 38 occurrences162–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–125 Mya — about 2 occurrences125–113 Mya — about 4 occurrences113–100 Mya — about 5 occurrences100–88 Mya — about 4 occurrences88–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–64 Mya — about 6 occurrences64–51 Mya — about 12 occurrences51–39 Mya — about 26 occurrences39–27 Mya — about 11 occurrences382.31 Mya56 Mya395 Mya27 Mya

139 occurrences of Microreticulatisporites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

139 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

29 formations

Carbondale — 40.00°N, 88.00°WCarbondale — 39.00°N, 87.00°WLost Branch — 37.20°N, 95.42°WSpoon — 40.00°N, 88.00°WAbu Roash — 30.00°N, 28.00°ELa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.75°WLa Colonia — 43.02°S, 67.66°WLa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WLa Colonia — 42.97°S, 67.54°WWild Cow — 35.00°N, 106.67°WUnnamed — 38.64°N, 94.40°WUnnamed — 40.23°N, 93.13°WUnnamed — 39.00°N, 93.97°WTradewater — 37.56°N, 88.51°WTradewater — 37.56°N, 88.79°WConemaugh — 39.71°N, 80.83°WConemaugh — 40.69°N, 80.64°WSeminole — 37.26°N, 93.86°WSeminole — 37.16°N, 95.47°WSeminole — 36.78°N, 95.69°WShelburn — 37.89°N, 87.71°WShelburn — 39.50°N, 90.04°WLake Murray — 34.29°N, 96.97°WCaballos — 2.62°N, 75.53°WRiverton — 37.60°N, 94.10°WCherra — 25.32°N, 91.73°ETacket — 37.19°N, 95.42°WHepler unit — 37.83°N, 94.98°WMartin — 33.80°N, 110.50°WGrès à Trigonies — 38.85°N, 9.33°WGrès, argiles et lignites supérieurs — 38.73°N, 9.43°WWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.35°WPrince Creek — 69.83°N, 151.52°WPatoka — 39.48°N, 90.10°WNowata — 40.00°N, 93.44°W

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The named rock units Microreticulatisporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 61 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Microreticulatisporites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Microreticulatisporites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

644 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 122 sites for Microreticulatisporites, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

16 references

Each of the 139 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. 4 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

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No picture of Microreticulatisporites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Microreticulatisporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Microreticulatisporites 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. Potonié and Kremp 1954