Spinosporites

No picture of Spinosporites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Spinosporites 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlantaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 37 of 39 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 39 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 39 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 1 occurrence312–310 Mya — about 2 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 2 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 6 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 8 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 9 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 9 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences295–292 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences262–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307 Mya259.857 Mya316 Mya251 Mya

39 occurrences of Spinosporites 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

39 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

8 formations

Lost Branch — 37.20°N, 95.42°WConemaugh — 39.71°N, 80.83°WConemaugh — 39.33°N, 82.13°WPatoka — 39.49°N, 90.02°WPatoka — 39.48°N, 90.10°WRiverton — 37.60°N, 94.10°WWild Cow — 35.00°N, 106.67°WUnnamed — 39.00°N, 93.97°WHartshorne — 35.68°N, 95.26°WVrchlabí — 50.63°N, 15.61°E

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The named rock units Spinosporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spinosporites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Spinosporites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Spinosporites, 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

6 references

Each of the 39 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 Spinosporites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Spinosporites 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.

No 3D scan of Spinosporites was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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. Alpern