Vitreisporites signatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VitreisporitesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 202 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 66 Mya.
27 occurrences of Vitreisporites signatus 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
27 occurrences- Permian41%
- Early Triassic22%
- Late Cretaceous37%
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
4 formations
- Chorrillo Formation10
- Calvoerde Formation · Buntsandstein Group5
- Bernburg Formation · Buntsandstein Group2
- Buckly Formation1
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The named rock units Vitreisporites signatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Vitreisporites signatus and its relatives
PermianWhere Vitreisporites signatus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
241 taxa- Lunatisporites16 sites
- Cycadopites follicularis15 sites
- Lueckisporites12 sites
- Protohaploxypinus12 sites
- Klausipollenites11 sites
- Kraeuselisporites11 sites
- Calamospora10 sites
- Cyathidites australis10 sites
- Cyathidites minor10 sites
- Laevigatosporites ovatus10 sites
- Trichotomosulcites subgranulatus10 sites
- Arecipites minutiscabratus9 sites
- Leiotriletes9 sites
- Podocarpidites9 sites
- Cycadopites8 sites
- Densoisporites8 sites
- Gleicheniidites8 sites
- Lundbladispora8 sites
- Microcachryidites antarcticus8 sites
- Peninsulapollis gilli8 sites
- Podocarpidites elegans8 sites
- Podocarpidites elipticus8 sites
- Trilites fasolae8 sites
- Apiculatisporis7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Vitreisporites signatus, 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
5 references- Maastrichtian palynological assemblages from the Chorrillo Formation, Patagonia, Argentina9
- Palynostratigraphy of the Permian and lowermost Triassic succession, Finnmark Platform, Barents Sea.9
- Palynologie des Zechsteins und Unteren Buntsandsteins im Germanischen Becken7
- Paleontological discoveries in the Chorrillo Formation (upper Campanian-lower Maastrichtian, Upper Cretaceous), Santa Cruz Province, Patagonia, Argentina1
- Correlation of Permian and Triassic palynomorph assemblages from the central Transantartic Mountains, Antartica1
Each of the 27 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 Vitreisporites signatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Vitreisporites signatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vitreisporites signatus 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 itVitreisporites through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leschik 1956