Calamospora
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SphenopsidaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 347 million years on record.
The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 66 Mya.
370 occurrences of Calamospora on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
370 occurrences- Silurianunder 1%
- Devonian11%
- Carboniferous69%
- Permian9%
- Early Triassic6%
- Middle Triassicunder 1%
- Late Triassicunder 1%
- Early Jurassicunder 1%
- Middle Jurassicunder 1%
- Early Cretaceous1%
- Late Cretaceousunder 1%
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
43 formations
- Carbondale Formation · Kewanee Group48
- Lost Branch Formation43
- Spoon Formation · Kewanee Group23
- Seminole Formation · Pleasanton Group13
- Shelburn Formation · McLeansboro Group9
- Wild Cow Formation8
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The named rock units Calamospora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 123 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Calamospora and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Calamospora and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
1,075 taxa- Punctatisporites162 sites
- Laevigatosporites120 sites
- Florinites115 sites
- Cyclogranisporites99 sites
- Granulatisporites95 sites
- Triquitrites95 sites
- Lycospora86 sites
- Endosporites80 sites
- Punctatosporites73 sites
- Apiculatisporis70 sites
- Thymospora67 sites
- Leiotriletes66 sites
- Verrucosisporites66 sites
- Wilsonites vesicatus60 sites
- Raistrickia59 sites
- Laevigatosporites vulgaris52 sites
- Vesicaspora52 sites
- Apiculatasporites51 sites
- Deltoidospora50 sites
- Convolutispora49 sites
- Lophotriletes49 sites
- Microreticulatisporites48 sites
- Retusotriletes47 sites
- Cirratriradites45 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 217 sites for Calamospora, 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
32 references- Palynological Correlation of major Pennsylvanian (Middle and Upper Carboniferous) chronostratigraphic boundaries in the Illinois and other coal basins89
- Correlation and Palynology of Coals in the Carbondale and Spoon Formations (Pennsylvanian) of the Northeastern Part of the Illinois Basin71
- Palynology of the Lost Branch Formation of Kansas--new insights on the major floral transition at the Middle-Upper Pennsylvanian boundary61
- Palynostratigraphy of the Permian and lowermost Triassic succession, Finnmark Platform, Barents Sea.33
- A drowned lycopsid forest above the Mahoning Coal (Conemaugh Group, Upper Pennsylvanian) in eastern Ohio, U.S.A23
- Middle Old Red Sandstone Spore Assemblages from the Orcadian Basin North-East Scotland23
- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants11
- Early Virgilian palynofloras from the Kinney Quarry, Manzanita Mountains, New Mexico8
- Miospores from Late Devonian (Early Frasnian) strata, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia8
- Microflora of the Permian and Lower Triassic sediments of the Mecsek Mountains (south Hungary)5
- Middle Cretaceous palynomorph assemblages from clays near the Horizon Beta deep-sea outcrop5
- Comparison of the Escuminac Formation ichthyofauna with other late Givetian/early Frasnian ichthyofaunas4
Each of the 370 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. 20 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 Calamospora 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 Calamospora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Calamospora 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSphenopsida through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schopf et al.