Alatisporites trialatus
No picture of Alatisporites trialatus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Alatisporites trialatus 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 most 25 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Alatisporites trialatus 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
10 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
2 formations
- Carbondale Formation · Kewanee Group5
- Spoon Formation · Kewanee Group4
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The named rock units Alatisporites trialatus 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.
Alatisporites trialatus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Alatisporites trialatus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Laevigatosporites10 sites
- Lycospora10 sites
- Calamospora9 sites
- Crassispora plicata9 sites
- Endosporites9 sites
- Florinites9 sites
- Punctatisporites9 sites
- Raistrickia9 sites
- Thymospora9 sites
- Triquitrites9 sites
- Wilsonites vesicatus9 sites
- Cyclogranisporites8 sites
- Granulatisporites8 sites
- Granulatisporites parvus8 sites
- Laevigatosporites vulgaris8 sites
- Anapiculatisporites7 sites
- Apiculatisporis7 sites
- Cirratriradites7 sites
- Elaterites triferens7 sites
- Laevigatosporites punctatus7 sites
- Lophotriletes7 sites
- Torispora securis7 sites
- Verrucosisporites7 sites
- Vesicaspora7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Alatisporites trialatus, 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- Correlation and Palynology of Coals in the Carbondale and Spoon Formations (Pennsylvanian) of the Northeastern Part of the Illinois Basin9
- A drowned lycopsid forest above the Mahoning Coal (Conemaugh Group, Upper Pennsylvanian) in eastern Ohio, U.S.A1
Each of the 10 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 Alatisporites trialatus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Alatisporites trialatus 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 Alatisporites trialatus 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.