Mooreisporites inusitatus
No picture of Mooreisporites inusitatus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Mooreisporites inusitatus 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.
Time the record covers
At most 25 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Mooreisporites inusitatus 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
15 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
4 formations
- Carbondale Formation · Kewanee Group8
- Spoon Formation · Kewanee Group4
- Nowata Formation1
- Memorial Formation1
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The named rock units Mooreisporites inusitatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mooreisporites inusitatus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Mooreisporites inusitatus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Cyclogranisporites15 sites
- Florinites15 sites
- Laevigatosporites15 sites
- Lycospora15 sites
- Punctatisporites15 sites
- Raistrickia15 sites
- Thymospora15 sites
- Triquitrites15 sites
- Calamospora14 sites
- Endosporites14 sites
- Granulatisporites14 sites
- Laevigatosporites vulgaris14 sites
- Cirratriradites13 sites
- Vestispora fenestrata13 sites
- Wilsonites vesicatus13 sites
- Crassispora plicata12 sites
- Microreticulatisporites12 sites
- Vesicaspora10 sites
- Anapiculatisporites9 sites
- Elaterites triferens9 sites
- Apiculatisporis8 sites
- Lophotriletes8 sites
- Verrucosisporites8 sites
- Wilsonites delicatus8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Mooreisporites inusitatus, 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- Correlation and Palynology of Coals in the Carbondale and Spoon Formations (Pennsylvanian) of the Northeastern Part of the Illinois Basin12
- Palynological Correlation of major Pennsylvanian (Middle and Upper Carboniferous) chronostratigraphic boundaries in the Illinois and other coal basins3
Each of the 15 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. 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 Mooreisporites inusitatus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Mooreisporites inusitatus 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 Mooreisporites inusitatus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.