Apiculatisporis

No picture of Apiculatisporis 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 Apiculatisporis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 390 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 31 of 133 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 40 of 133 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 27 of 133 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 19 of 133 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 133 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 133 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 133 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 133 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 133 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 133 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 133 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 133 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 133 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 133 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 133 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 133 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 133 occurrences419–405 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences405–391 Mya — about 5 occurrences391–377 Mya — about 23 occurrences377–363 Mya — about 2 occurrences363–349 Mya — about 2 occurrences349–335 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences335–321 Mya — about 3 occurrences321–307 Mya — about 17 occurrences307–293 Mya — about 19 occurrences293–279 Mya — about 9 occurrences279–265 Mya — about 10 occurrences265–251 Mya — about 19 occurrences251–237 Mya — about 7 occurrences237–223 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences223–209 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences209–195 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences168–154 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences154–140 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences140–126 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences126–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–98 Mya — about 5 occurrences98–84 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences84–70 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences70–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence393.47 Mya2.58 Mya419 Mya0 Mya

133 occurrences of Apiculatisporis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

133 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

24 formations

Carbondale — 40.00°N, 88.00°WCarbondale — 39.00°N, 87.00°WSpoon — 40.00°N, 88.00°WGneudna — 26.00°S, 115.00°EGneudna — 23.00°S, 116.00°EWild Cow — 35.00°N, 106.67°WFairfield — 18.12°S, 125.33°EFairfield — 17.96°S, 125.28°EFairfield — 18.08°S, 125.42°EFairfield — 17.64°S, 125.94°EBarakar — 23.20°N, 82.30°ELost Branch — 37.20°N, 95.42°WHepler unit — 37.83°N, 94.98°WSandwick fish beds — 59.00°N, 3.00°WCurua — 4.00°S, 57.00°WJakabhegy — 46.08°N, 18.13°EBeartooth Butte — 44.95°N, 109.62°WFremouw — 84.00°S, 165.00°EToad/Grayling — 56.23°N, 117.28°WVal Gardena Sandstone — 46.36°N, 11.41°Eunnamed — 81.23°N, 92.20°WSabine Bay — 80.35°N, 81.18°WOriente — 7.00°S, 75.00°WTunal — 25.43°S, 65.30°WLoncoche — 36.53°S, 69.82°WRaniganj — 23.70°N, 86.30°EPanchet — 23.67°N, 87.33°EKrol — 29.39°N, 79.45°EVrchlabí — 50.63°N, 15.61°E

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The named rock units Apiculatisporis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 67 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Apiculatisporis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Apiculatisporis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

985 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 109 sites for Apiculatisporis, 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

24 references

Each of the 133 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. 12 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 Apiculatisporis 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 Apiculatisporis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Apiculatisporis 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. Potonié and Kremp 1956