Eosperma
No picture of Eosperma was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Eosperma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CalamopityaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 36 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Eosperma 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
14 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Garlton Hills Volcanics Formation · Lower Lothian Calciferous Sandstone Measures (Series) Group11
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The named rock units Eosperma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eosperma and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Eosperma and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Amyelon12 sites
- Lyginorachis10 sites
- Telangium10 sites
- Oxroadia gracilis9 sites
- Tantallosperma setigera9 sites
- cf. Melissiotheca sp.8 sites
- Deltasperma fouldenense8 sites
- Gymnospermopsida8 sites
- Salpingostoma dasu8 sites
- Bilignea solida6 sites
- Hydrasperma tenuis6 sites
- Sphaerostoma6 sites
- Stamnostoma6 sites
- Triradioxylon primaevum6 sites
- Cladoxylon5 sites
- Buteoxylon gordonianum4 sites
- Lycopsida4 sites
- Stauropteris4 sites
- Calathospermum3 sites
- Dolichosperma sexangulatum3 sites
- Setispora subpalaeocristata3 sites
- Calathopteris heterophylla2 sites
- cf. Eccroustosperma langtonense2 sites
- Eurystoma2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Eosperma, 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
3 references- A reappraisal of the Dinantian floras at Oxroad Bay, East Lothian, Scotland. 1. Floristics and the development of whole-plant concepts11
- Distribution of anatomically-preserved floras in the Lower Carboniferous in Western Europe2
- Some Lower Carboniferous fructifications from Berwickshire, together with a theoretical account of the origin of ovules,cupules, and carpels1
Each of the 14 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Eosperma was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Eosperma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eosperma 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 itCalamopityaceae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barnard 1959