Trochosporites
No picture of Trochosporites was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Trochosporites 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 38 million years on record.
The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 293.52 Mya to 247 Mya.
4 occurrences of Trochosporites on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
4 occurrences- Permian75%
- Early Triassic25%
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 Trochosporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Trochosporites and its relatives
PermianWhere Trochosporites and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
209 taxa- Laevigatosporites3 sites
- Platysaccus3 sites
- Punctatisporites3 sites
- Alisporites2 sites
- Densipollenites indicus2 sites
- Densipollenites invisus2 sites
- Ginkgocycadophytus2 sites
- Glossopteris taeniensis2 sites
- Hamiapollenites2 sites
- Plicatipollenites indicus2 sites
- Potonieisporites2 sites
- Rhizomaspora2 sites
- Striatites solitus2 sites
- Verticipollenites gibbosus2 sites
- Vittatina2 sites
- <hystrichosphaerid>1 site
- Acanthotriletes ciliatus1 site
- Algacites oogonifera1 site
- Alisporites indicus1 site
- Alisporites oblongus1 site
- Anapiculatisporites consonus1 site
- Anapiculatisporites veritas1 site
- Anguisporites contortus n. sp.1 site
- Anguisporites intonsus n. sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Trochosporites, 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 Plants3
- Permian plant microfossils from the Flowerpot Formation, Greer County, Oklahoma1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Trochosporites was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Trochosporites 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 Trochosporites 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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What may have been alongside itPlantae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson