Cystosporites

No picture of Cystosporites was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cystosporites 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlantaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 3 of 8 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 3 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 8 occurrencesPermian396–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–388 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences388–383 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences383–379 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences379–375 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences375–371 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences371–367 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences367–363 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences363–359 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences359–355 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences355–350 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences322–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–313 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences313–309 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences309–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences293–289 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences289–284 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences284–280 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences280–276 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences276–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358.86 Mya290.1 Mya396 Mya272 Mya

8 occurrences of Cystosporites 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

8 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

1 formation

Escuminac — 48.13°N, 66.30°W

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The named rock units Cystosporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cystosporites, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

5 references

Each of the 8 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 Cystosporites was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cystosporites 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 Cystosporites 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schopf 1953