Densosporites

No picture of Densosporites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Densosporites 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
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Time the record covers

At least 198 million years on record.

The record covers at least 399.5 Mya to 201.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Devonian — about 6 of 55 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 44 of 55 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 55 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 55 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 55 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 55 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 55 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 55 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 55 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 55 occurrences416–407 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences407–397 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences388–379 Mya — about 5 occurrences379–370 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences351–342 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences342–333 Mya — about 1 occurrence333–323 Mya — about 4 occurrences323–314 Mya — about 19 occurrences314–305 Mya — about 17 occurrences305–295 Mya — about 3 occurrences295–286 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences268–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence258–249 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences249–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences212–203 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences203–193 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences193–184 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences184–175 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences175–166 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences166–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399.5 Mya201.4 Mya416 Mya138 Mya

55 occurrences of Densosporites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

55 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

11 formations

Spoon — 40.00°N, 88.00°WTradewater — 37.56°N, 88.79°WTradewater — 37.56°N, 88.51°WTradewater — 37.50°N, 88.01°WMansfield — 38.56°N, 86.65°WLost Branch — 37.20°N, 95.42°WBloyd — 35.78°N, 94.47°WBloyd — 36.08°N, 94.43°WCaseyville — 37.53°N, 88.09°WCarbondale — 40.00°N, 88.00°WRiverton — 37.27°N, 94.68°WRiverton — 37.60°N, 94.10°WFlowerpot — 36.30°N, 98.53°WHunsrück Slate — 49.89°N, 7.47°EVrchlabí — 50.63°N, 15.61°E

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The named rock units Densosporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Densosporites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Densosporites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

385 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Densosporites, 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

13 references

Each of the 55 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. 1 further reference is 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

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No picture of Densosporites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

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. Berry 1937