Pterospermopsimorpha

Searched as Pterospermopsimorpha insolita. The Paleobiology Database treats Pterospermopsimorpha as the accepted name.

No picture of Pterospermopsimorpha was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Pterospermopsimorpha 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcritarchaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Acritarcha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Acritarcha

Time the record covers

At least 965 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1600 Mya to 635 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1800 Mya to 538.8 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 15 occurrences1825–1782 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1782–1738 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1738–1694 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1694–1650 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1650–1607 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1607–1563 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1213–1169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1169–1126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1126–1082 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1082–1038 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1038–995 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences995–951 Mya — about 2 occurrences951–907 Mya — about 2 occurrences907–863 Mya — about 2 occurrences863–820 Mya — about 2 occurrences820–776 Mya — about 2 occurrences776–732 Mya — about 2 occurrences732–688 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences645–601 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences601–557 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences557–514 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1600 Mya635 Mya1825 Mya514 Mya

15 occurrences of Pterospermopsimorpha on record. 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

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

7 formations

Alinya — 28.43°S, 132.39°EGdov — 59.42°N, 27.97°EKotlin — 59.09°N, 27.17°ENelson Head — 67.62°N, 115.73°WChangzhougou — 40.63°N, 115.45°EChuanlinggou — 40.20°N, 117.50°EUpper Visingsö — 58.02°N, 14.32°E

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The named rock units Pterospermopsimorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

94 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Pterospermopsimorpha, 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

5 references

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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Pterospermopsimorpha was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Pterospermopsimorpha 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 Pterospermopsimorpha 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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What may have been alongside itAcritarcha through time

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Timofeev 1962