Ahrensisporites sp.
No picture of Ahrensisporites sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ahrensisporites sp. 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 44 million years on record.
The record covers at least 318.7 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 330.3 Mya to 254.14 Mya.
9 occurrences of Ahrensisporites sp. 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
9 occurrences- Carboniferous89%
- Permian11%
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
5 formations
- Tradewater Formation3
- Bloyd Formation2
- Lost Branch Formation1
- Spoon Formation · Kewanee Group1
- Mansfield Formation · Raccoon Creek Group1
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The named rock units Ahrensisporites sp. 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.
Ahrensisporites sp. and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Ahrensisporites sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Florinites8 sites
- Granulatisporites8 sites
- Calamospora7 sites
- Convolutispora7 sites
- Lycospora7 sites
- Crassispora kosankei6 sites
- Densosporites6 sites
- Laevigatosporites6 sites
- Apiculatasporites5 sites
- Cyclogranisporites5 sites
- Deltoidospora5 sites
- Knoxisporites5 sites
- Lophotriletes5 sites
- Punctatisporites5 sites
- Triquitrites5 sites
- Verrucosisporites5 sites
- Ahrensisporites guerickei4 sites
- Anapiculatisporites4 sites
- Endosporites4 sites
- Microreticulatisporites4 sites
- Raistrickia4 sites
- Ahrensisporites guerickei ornatus3 sites
- Cristatisporites3 sites
- Dictyotriletes3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Ahrensisporites sp., 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
4 references- Palynological Correlation of major Pennsylvanian (Middle and Upper Carboniferous) chronostratigraphic boundaries in the Illinois and other coal basins6
- Palynology of the Lost Branch Formation of Kansas--new insights on the major floral transition at the Middle-Upper Pennsylvanian boundary1
- Palynostratigraphy of the Permian and lowermost Triassic succession, Finnmark Platform, Barents Sea.1
- Correlation and Palynology of Coals in the Carbondale and Spoon Formations (Pennsylvanian) of the Northeastern Part of the Illinois Basin1
Each of the 9 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 sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ahrensisporites sp. 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 sp. 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.