Retispora
No picture of Retispora 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 Retispora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SelaginellalesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
- Environment
- freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Lycopodiophyta
Time the record covers
At most 84 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Retispora 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
5 occurrences- Devonian39%
- Carboniferous61%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Retispora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Retispora and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Retispora and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Apiculatisporis4 sites
- Convolutispora4 sites
- Endosporites4 sites
- Gorgonispora convoluta4 sites
- Grandispora4 sites
- Granulatisporites4 sites
- Knoxisporites4 sites
- Retusotriletes4 sites
- Stenozonotriletes4 sites
- Brochotriletes textilis3 sites
- Camptotriletes3 sites
- Crassispora drucei3 sites
- Diaphanospora depressa3 sites
- Diaphanospora perplexa3 sites
- Diaphanospora riciniata3 sites
- Dibolisporites3 sites
- Foveosporties sp.3 sites
- Hystricosporites porrectus3 sites
- Leiozonotriletes laurelensis3 sites
- Raistrickia3 sites
- Velamisporites3 sites
- Verrucosisporites3 sites
- Auroraspora macra2 sites
- Cirratriradites2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Retispora, 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- Plant microfossils from the Upper Devonian and Lower Carboniferous of the Canning Basin, Western Australia4
- Der Beginn des Karbons im Wechsel der Trilobiten1
Each of the 5 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Retispora 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 Retispora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Retispora 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSelaginellales through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Staplin 1960