Pityosporites

Pityosporites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 273 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 152 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 26 of 152 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 36 of 152 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 152 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 152 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 152 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 152 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 152 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 152 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 152 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 26 of 152 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 25 of 152 occurrencesEocene — about 15 of 152 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 152 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 152 occurrences366–354 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences354–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–307 Mya — about 15 occurrences307–296 Mya — about 11 occurrences296–284 Mya — about 6 occurrences284–272 Mya — about 4 occurrences272–261 Mya — about 3 occurrences261–249 Mya — about 23 occurrences249–238 Mya — about 4 occurrences238–226 Mya — about 1 occurrence226–214 Mya — about 1 occurrence214–203 Mya — about 1 occurrence203–191 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences191–179 Mya — about 1 occurrence179–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–144 Mya — about 3 occurrences144–133 Mya — about 1 occurrence133–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–109 Mya — about 4 occurrences109–98 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences86–75 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences75–63 Mya — about 43 occurrences63–51 Mya — about 8 occurrences51–40 Mya — about 12 occurrences40–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences307 Mya33.9 Mya366 Mya16 Mya

152 occurrences of Pityosporites 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

152 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

33 formations

Fort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WHell Creek — 46.35°N, 103.87°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WLost Branch — 37.19°N, 95.42°WLost Branch — 37.83°N, 94.98°WZechstein Limestone — 51.50°N, 6.53°EZechstein Limestone — 50.50°N, 6.53°EZechstein Limestone — 51.55°N, 6.60°EAlpine Salt Deposits — 47.53°N, 13.65°EZechstein — 51.50°N, 6.53°ESaharonim — 31.60°N, 34.70°ERaniganj — 23.30°N, 81.10°ERaniganj — 23.90°N, 87.00°EHepler Unit — 37.83°N, 94.98°WWild Cow — 35.00°N, 106.67°WEifel — 50.10°N, 6.84°ECopper Shale — 51.50°N, 6.53°ECopper Shale — 51.55°N, 6.60°EScollard — 51.93°N, 112.83°WShelburn — 37.91°N, 88.80°WShelburn — 39.50°N, 90.04°WClearwater — 56.75°N, 111.37°WJabalpur — 23.11°N, 80.13°EParsora — 24.70°N, 87.40°EDhrangadhra — 22.81°N, 70.88°EDhrangadhra — 22.58°N, 71.21°EKarharbari — 24.20°N, 84.40°EKarharbari — 24.30°N, 86.20°EBarakar — 23.80°N, 84.60°EBarakar — 23.20°N, 82.30°EChinle — 35.20°N, 108.20°WKorpad — 46.15°N, 17.92°EFlowerpot — 36.30°N, 98.53°WCopper Shale and Zechstein Limestone — 51.55°N, 6.60°E

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The named rock units Pityosporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pityosporites and its relatives

Permian

Where Pityosporites and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,361 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 135 sites for Pityosporites, 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

26 references

Each of the 152 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. 14 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 content1

Picture of Pityosporites

Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pityosporites 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. Seward 1914