Saccarisporites
No picture of Saccarisporites was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Saccarisporites 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
- PlantaePBDB
Time the record covers
At least 131 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 143.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
6 occurrences of Saccarisporites 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
6 occurrences- Permian33%
- Late Jurassic10%
- Early Cretaceous57%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Saccarisporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
208 taxa- Platysaccus3 sites
- Callialasporites dampieri2 sites
- Callialasporites trilobatus2 sites
- Laevigatosporites2 sites
- Pityosporites2 sites
- Ptilophyllum cutchense2 sites
- Striatites2 sites
- Abiespollenites triangularis1 site
- Actinopteris1 site
- Actinopteris peltata1 site
- Aequitriradites fusus1 site
- Aequitriradites triangulatus1 site
- Alethopteris lobifolia1 site
- Alethopteris whitbyensis1 site
- Alisporites1 site
- Allocladus bansaensis1 site
- Allocladus sehoraensis1 site
- Alsophilidites densus1 site
- Araucariacites1 site
- Araucariacites australis1 site
- Araucariacites indicus1 site
- Araucarites cutchensis1 site
- Araucarites minutus1 site
- Araucarites sehoraensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Saccarisporites, 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- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants5
- A megaspore assemblage from the Athgarh Formation and its bearing on the age of the formation1
Each of the 6 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 Saccarisporites was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Saccarisporites 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 Saccarisporites 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sukh-Dev 1961