Alisporites

No picture of Alisporites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Alisporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GymnospermaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 250 million years on record.

The record covers at least 306 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 264 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 10 of 264 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 69 of 264 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 20 of 264 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 18 of 264 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 11 of 264 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 264 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 12 of 264 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 12 of 264 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 58 of 264 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 41 of 264 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 264 occurrencesEocene — about 10 of 264 occurrences365–354 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences354–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–333 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences333–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–311 Mya — about 2 occurrences311–300 Mya — about 7 occurrences300–290 Mya — about 15 occurrences290–279 Mya — about 13 occurrences279–268 Mya — about 13 occurrences268–257 Mya — about 12 occurrences257–247 Mya — about 37 occurrences247–236 Mya — about 18 occurrences236–225 Mya — about 6 occurrences225–214 Mya — about 2 occurrences214–203 Mya — about 2 occurrences203–193 Mya — about 2 occurrences193–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–171 Mya — about 1 occurrence171–160 Mya — about 12 occurrences160–150 Mya — about 7 occurrences150–139 Mya — about 6 occurrences139–128 Mya — about 1 occurrence128–117 Mya — about 8 occurrences117–106 Mya — about 26 occurrences106–96 Mya — about 33 occurrences96–85 Mya — about 10 occurrences85–74 Mya — about 9 occurrences74–63 Mya — about 10 occurrences63–53 Mya — about 5 occurrences53–42 Mya — about 6 occurrences306 Mya56 Mya365 Mya42 Mya

264 occurrences of Alisporites 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

264 occurrences

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

80 formations

Tambo — 27.34°S, 135.72°ETambo — 29.13°S, 140.88°ERunnymede — 37.37°S, 140.90°EBathurst Island — 11.79°S, 130.23°EBathurst Island — 11.78°S, 130.35°EUkureyskaya — 52.52°N, 116.72°ELost Branch — 37.20°N, 95.42°WLost Branch — 37.83°N, 94.98°WCsopak — 47.34°N, 17.68°EWhisky Bay — 63.87°S, 58.08°WWhisky Bay — 63.83°S, 58.13°WFremouw — 84.00°S, 165.00°EGevanim — 31.67°N, 34.83°EGevanim — 31.60°N, 34.70°EDinosaur Park — 50.82°N, 111.57°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.48°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.49°WRa'af — 31.60°N, 34.70°ERa'af — 31.67°N, 34.58°EKotick Point — 64.00°S, 58.36°WKotick Point — 64.01°S, 58.35°WSolling — 52.12°N, 10.67°EClearwater — 56.75°N, 111.37°WChinle — 35.20°N, 108.20°WBelle Creek — 32.39°N, 99.39°WMatfield — 39.00°N, 96.67°WForaker — 39.13°N, 96.00°WWood Siding — 39.13°N, 96.00°WPekin — 35.50°N, 79.40°WWellington — 36.00°N, 97.00°WWellington — 36.92°N, 97.33°WVal Gardena Sandstone — 46.36°N, 11.41°ESanta Marta — 63.88°S, 57.96°WHell Creek — 46.29°N, 103.95°W

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The named rock units Alisporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 56 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 90 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Alisporites and its relatives

Permian

Where Alisporites and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

2,139 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 165 sites for Alisporites, 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

76 references

Each of the 264 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. 64 further references are not listed. 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

Media content0

No picture of Alisporites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Alisporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Alisporites 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. Daugherty 1941