Ambitisporites dilutus
No picture of Ambitisporites dilutus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ambitisporites dilutus 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.
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 393.47 Mya.
3 occurrences of Ambitisporites dilutus on record. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
- Cowie Formation · Stonehaven Group1
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The named rock units Ambitisporites dilutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Archaeozonotriletes chulus2 sites
- Acinosporites salopiensis1 site
- Albadesmus almondi1 site
- Ambitisporites avitus1 site
- Apiculiretusispora1 site
- Artemopyra brevicosta1 site
- Artemopyra sp.1 site
- Cheilotetras caledonica1 site
- Cowiedesmus eroticopodus1 site
- Cowielepis1 site
- Cymbosporites sp.1 site
- Dictyocaris1 site
- Dyadospora murusattenuata1 site
- Dyadospora murusdensa1 site
- Emphanisporites1 site
- Hemicyclaspis1 site
- Hispanaediscus lamontii1 site
- Hispanaediscus verrucatus1 site
- Hispanaediscus wenlockensis1 site
- Laevolancis divellomedium1 site
- Laevolancis plicata1 site
- Nanahughmilleria norvegica1 site
- Perotrilites1 site
- Plantae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ambitisporites dilutus, 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
3 references- Age of the basal ‘Lower Old Red Sandstone’ Stonehaven Group of Scotland: The oldest reported air-breathing land animal is Silurian (late Wenlock) in age1
- A new plant assemblage (microfossil and megafossil) from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of the Anglo-Welsh Basin: its implications for the palaeoecology of early terrestrial ecosystems1
- Lower Devonian (Dittonian) plants from the Welsh Borderland1
Each of the 3 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.
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No picture of Ambitisporites dilutus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ambitisporites dilutus 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.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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.