Ghoshispora
No picture of Ghoshispora was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ghoshispora 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. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
39 occurrences of Ghoshispora on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
39 occurrences- Late Cretaceous59%
- Paleocene41%
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
4 formations
- Fort Union Formation20
- Hell Creek Formation · Montana Group14
- Scollard Formation · Edmonton Group3
- La Colonia Formation2
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The named rock units Ghoshispora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ghoshispora and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ghoshispora and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
228 taxa- Laevigatosporites35 sites
- Deltoidospora34 sites
- Pityosporites34 sites
- Azolla31 sites
- Cyathidites31 sites
- Gleicheniidites31 sites
- Penetetrapites30 sites
- Taxodiaceaepollenites29 sites
- Triporopollenites29 sites
- Ulmipollenites krempii29 sites
- Cycadopites27 sites
- Wodehouseia spinata27 sites
- Aquilapollenites26 sites
- Osmundacidites26 sites
- Schizophacus sp.26 sites
- Pandaniidites typicus24 sites
- Tricolpites23 sites
- Kurtzipites trispissatus22 sites
- Stereisporites22 sites
- Arecipites21 sites
- Ericaceoipollenites sp.21 sites
- Reticuloidosporites21 sites
- Algae20 sites
- Inaperturopollenites17 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Ghoshispora, 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
6 references- Biostratigraphy of selected K/T boundary sections in southwestern North Dakota, USA: toward a refinement of palynological identification criteria33
- Upper Cretaceous microflora (Maestrichtian) from Scollard, Alberta, Canada2
- High precision CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb zircon age for the “Dueling Dinosaurs” locality, with implications for regional correlation, basal age and duration of the Hell Creek Formation, Montana1
- Spores from the K–Pg boundary of the La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina1
- Water fern spores (Salviniales) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina1
- The Cretaceous megaspore genus Ghoshispora1
Each of the 39 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
Media content0
No picture of Ghoshispora was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ghoshispora 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.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Ghoshispora 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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What may have been alongside itFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Srivastava 1967