Reticulatisporites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LycopodiaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Environment
freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Lycopodiophyta

Time the record covers

At least 360 million years on record.

The record covers at least 372.15 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 55 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 28 of 55 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 55 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 55 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 55 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 55 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 55 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 55 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 55 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 55 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 55 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 55 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 55 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 55 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 55 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 55 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 55 occurrences390–377 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences377–364 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences364–351 Mya — about 2 occurrences351–338 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences325–312 Mya — about 12 occurrences312–299 Mya — about 14 occurrences299–286 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences286–273 Mya — about 1 occurrence273–260 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences260–247 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences247–234 Mya — about 3 occurrences234–221 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences221–208 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences208–195 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences169–156 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences156–143 Mya — about 1 occurrence130–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–104 Mya — about 7 occurrences104–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–26 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence372.15 Mya11.63 Mya390 Mya0 Mya

55 occurrences of Reticulatisporites 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

55 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

28 formations

Spoon — 40.00°N, 88.00°WCarbondale — 40.00°N, 88.00°WCarbondale — 39.00°N, 87.00°WTradewater — 37.56°N, 88.51°WTradewater — 37.50°N, 88.01°WFairfield — 18.12°S, 125.33°EFairfield — 18.08°S, 125.42°ETambo — 27.34°S, 135.72°ERunnymede — 37.37°S, 140.90°ETura — 25.97°N, 90.89°ETura — 25.54°N, 90.58°ELost Branch — 37.20°N, 95.42°WChinle — 35.20°N, 108.20°WSaharonim — 31.67°N, 34.58°EGevanim — 31.67°N, 34.58°ERa'af — 31.67°N, 34.58°EMansfield — 38.56°N, 86.65°WConemaugh — 39.33°N, 82.13°WPatoka — 39.45°N, 89.95°WUnnamed — 38.64°N, 94.40°WNowata — 40.00°N, 93.44°WLake Murray — 34.29°N, 96.97°WCaseyville — 37.53°N, 88.09°WChiquimil — 26.83°S, 66.00°WRio Mayer — 48.82°S, 72.12°WKachaike — 48.82°S, 72.12°WCodó — 4.52°S, 44.03°WEscuminac — 48.11°N, 66.40°W

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The named rock units Reticulatisporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Reticulatisporites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Reticulatisporites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

874 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Reticulatisporites, 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

17 references

Each of the 55 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. 5 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 content0

No picture of Reticulatisporites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Reticulatisporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Reticulatisporites 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. Ibrahim 1933