Ancyrospora sp.
No picture of Ancyrospora sp. was found. Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ancyrospora 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. Wikipedia did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At least 28 million years on record.
The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 346.7 Mya.
62 occurrences of Ancyrospora sp. 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
62 occurrences- Devonian87%
- Carboniferous13%
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
13 formations
- Gneudna Formation13
- Harrylock Formation12
- Escuminac Formation9
- Upper Hecla Bay--Beverly Inlet--Parry Islands Formation4
- Yudade Formation3
- Hecla Bay Formation2
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The named rock units Ancyrospora sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ancyrospora sp. and its relatives
DevonianWhere Ancyrospora sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
224 taxa- Retusotriletes19 sites
- Rhabdosporites18 sites
- Grandispora17 sites
- Punctatisporites15 sites
- Calamospora14 sites
- Dibolisporites13 sites
- Verrucosisporites13 sites
- Apiculatisporis11 sites
- Convolutispora11 sites
- Emphanisporites11 sites
- Geminospora lemurata11 sites
- Emphanisporites rotatus10 sites
- Stenozonotriletes10 sites
- Ancyrospora langii9 sites
- Leiotriletes9 sites
- Ambagisporites daedaleus8 sites
- Ancyrospora ancyrea8 sites
- Ancyrospora carnarvonensis8 sites
- Calyptosporites proximocavatus8 sites
- Cyclogranisporites8 sites
- Cymbosporites hormiscoides8 sites
- Calyptosporites stolidotus7 sites
- Gneudnaspora divellomedium7 sites
- Gneudnaspora kernickii7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Ancyrospora 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
12 references- Miospores from Late Devonian (Early Frasnian) strata, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia15
- Megaspores from the uppermost Devonian (Strunian) of Hook Head, County Wexford, Ireland12
- Comparison of the Escuminac Formation ichthyofauna with other late Givetian/early Frasnian ichthyofaunas9
- Devonian Spore Assemblages of China9
- Givetian and Frasnian spores from the Key Point well, Parry Islands, Arctic Canada6
- Spores from the Middle Old Red Sandstone of Cromarty, Scotland3
- Morphology and wall ultrastructure in Devonian spores with bifurcate-tipped processes2
- Miospores from the Upper Devonian (Frasnian) Greenland Gap Group, Allegheny Front, Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia, U.S.A2
- The Devonian of the Arabian Peninsula1
- Bisporangiostrobus harrisii gen. et sp. nov., An eligulate lycopsid cone with duosporites megaspores and geminospora microspores from the Upper Devonian of Pennsylvania, U.S.A1
- Les grandes etapes de l'evolution paleozoique du Massif de Santander (Andes de Colombie): signification de la discordance du Devonian moyen1
- Middle Devonian (Givetian) plant microfossils from Goe (Belgium)1
Each of the 62 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 sp. was found. Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ancyrospora 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.
Wikipedia did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
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.