Ancyrospora furcula
Ancyrospora is a fossil plant genus.
No picture of Ancyrospora furcula was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ancyrospora furcula 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 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 346.7 Mya.
5 occurrences of Ancyrospora furcula on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
5 occurrences- Devonian61%
- Carboniferous39%
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
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The named rock units Ancyrospora furcula 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.
Ancyrospora furcula and its relatives
DevonianWhere Ancyrospora furcula and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Grandispora4 sites
- Hystricosporites delectabilis4 sites
- Ancyrospora ? capillata3 sites
- Contagisporites spp.3 sites
- Hystricosporites cf. multifurcatus3 sites
- Hystricosporites multifurcatus3 sites
- Ancyrospora ancyrea2 sites
- Ancyrospora angulata2 sites
- Ancyrospora hookensis2 sites
- Auritolagenicula auritula2 sites
- Auritolagenicula rugulata2 sites
- Cirratriradites2 sites
- Hymenozonotriletes2 sites
- Hystricosporites pauculus2 sites
- Hystricosporites spp.2 sites
- Hystricosporites winslovii2 sites
- Rhabdosporites2 sites
- Samarisporites2 sites
- Triangulartisporites ? leinsterensis2 sites
- <Spore Type B>1 site
- Acanthotriletes1 site
- Anapiculatisporites1 site
- Ancyrospora ampulla1 site
- Ancyrospora cf. acutispinosus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ancyrospora furcula, 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- Megaspores from the uppermost Devonian (Strunian) of Hook Head, County Wexford, Ireland3
- Devonian Spore Assemblages of China1
- Givetian and Frasnian spores from the Key Point well, Parry Islands, Arctic Canada1
Each of the 5 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 Ancyrospora furcula was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ancyrospora furcula 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 Ancyrospora furcula 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Ancyrospora”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.