Endosporites

No picture of Endosporites was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Endosporites 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 258 million years on record.

The record covers at least 372.15 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 3 of 211 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 95 of 211 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 79 of 211 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 26 of 211 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 6 of 211 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 211 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 211 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 211 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 211 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 211 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 211 occurrences388–378 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences378–368 Mya — about 1 occurrence368–358 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences358–348 Mya — about 2 occurrences348–338 Mya — about 1 occurrence338–328 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences328–318 Mya — about 7 occurrences318–308 Mya — about 38 occurrences308–298 Mya — about 46 occurrences298–288 Mya — about 6 occurrences288–278 Mya — about 3 occurrences278–268 Mya — about 2 occurrences268–258 Mya — about 16 occurrences258–248 Mya — about 72 occurrences248–238 Mya — about 10 occurrences238–228 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences118–108 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences108–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–88 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences372.15 Mya113.2 Mya388 Mya88 Mya

211 occurrences of Endosporites 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

211 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

48 formations

Bernburg — 52.12°N, 10.67°EBernburg — 51.95°N, 10.22°ECarbondale — 40.00°N, 88.00°WCarbondale — 39.00°N, 87.00°WLost Branch — 37.19°N, 95.42°WLost Branch — 37.83°N, 94.98°WSpoon — 40.00°N, 88.00°WZafir — 31.67°N, 34.83°EZafir — 31.60°N, 34.70°EZechstein Limestone — 51.50°N, 6.53°EZechstein Limestone — 50.50°N, 6.53°EZechstein Limestone — 51.55°N, 6.60°EWild Cow — 35.00°N, 106.67°WSeminole — 37.26°N, 93.86°WSeminole — 37.15°N, 95.47°WSeminole — 37.18°N, 95.42°WSeminole — 36.08°N, 95.05°WSeminole — 36.78°N, 95.69°WGroedner Sandstein — 46.35°N, 11.40°EGroedner Sandstein — 46.35°N, 11.35°EGroedner Sandstein — 46.68°N, 11.40°EGroedner Sandstein — 46.57°N, 11.67°EArqov — 31.67°N, 34.83°EArqov — 31.67°N, 34.58°EYamin - Zafir — 31.67°N, 34.58°EErez — 31.58°N, 34.67°EConemaugh — 39.71°N, 80.83°WConemaugh — 39.33°N, 82.13°WConemaugh — 40.69°N, 80.64°WPatoka — 39.45°N, 89.95°WPatoka — 39.49°N, 90.02°WPatoka — 39.48°N, 90.10°WFairfield — 18.12°S, 125.33°EFairfield — 17.96°S, 125.28°EFairfield — 18.08°S, 125.42°EFairfield — 17.64°S, 125.94°ECalvoerde — 52.12°N, 10.67°ECalvoerde — 51.95°N, 10.22°EShelburn — 37.89°N, 87.71°WShelburn — 37.91°N, 88.80°WShelburn — 39.50°N, 90.04°WHoldenville — 36.59°N, 95.71°WHoldenville — 35.98°N, 96.00°WHoldenville — 36.77°N, 95.69°WRiverton — 37.27°N, 94.68°WRiverton — 37.60°N, 94.10°WBellerophon — 46.37°N, 11.65°ELower Buntsandstein — 50.83°N, 20.67°ECopper Shale — 51.50°N, 6.53°ECopper Shale — 51.55°N, 6.60°ELower Magnesium Limestone — 52.98°N, 1.27°WWechsel — 51.95°N, 10.22°E

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The named rock units Endosporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Endosporites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Endosporites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

695 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 188 sites for Endosporites, 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 211 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

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No picture of Endosporites was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Endosporites 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 Endosporites 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. Wilson and Coe