Ahrensisporites guerickei
No picture of Ahrensisporites guerickei was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ahrensisporites guerickei 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.
Time the record covers
At least 3.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 318.7 Mya to 315.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 330.3 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
7 occurrences of Ahrensisporites guerickei 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
7 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Tradewater Formation3
- Bloyd Formation2
- Spoon Formation · Kewanee Group1
- Mansfield Formation · Raccoon Creek Group1
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The named rock units Ahrensisporites guerickei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ahrensisporites guerickei and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Ahrensisporites guerickei and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Florinites7 sites
- Granulatisporites7 sites
- Convolutispora6 sites
- Densosporites6 sites
- Lycospora6 sites
- Calamospora5 sites
- Crassispora kosankei5 sites
- Laevigatosporites5 sites
- Apiculatasporites4 sites
- Cyclogranisporites4 sites
- Deltoidospora4 sites
- Knoxisporites4 sites
- Lophotriletes4 sites
- Punctatisporites4 sites
- Anapiculatisporites3 sites
- Cristatisporites3 sites
- Dictyotriletes3 sites
- Endosporites3 sites
- Microreticulatisporites3 sites
- Raistrickia3 sites
- Renisporites confossus3 sites
- Reticulatisporites3 sites
- Savitrisporites nux3 sites
- Schulzospora rara3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ahrensisporites guerickei, 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- Palynological Correlation of major Pennsylvanian (Middle and Upper Carboniferous) chronostratigraphic boundaries in the Illinois and other coal basins6
- Correlation and Palynology of Coals in the Carbondale and Spoon Formations (Pennsylvanian) of the Northeastern Part of the Illinois Basin1
Each of the 7 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 Ahrensisporites guerickei was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ahrensisporites guerickei 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 Ahrensisporites guerickei 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.