Granasporites medius
No picture of Granasporites medius 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 Granasporites medius 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.
Time the record covers
At most 25 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
49 occurrences of Granasporites medius 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
49 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
8 formations
- Lost Branch Formation6
- Shelburn Formation · McLeansboror Group5
- Holdenville Formation3
- Tradewater Formation2
- Memorial Formation2
- Tacket Formation1
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The named rock units Granasporites medius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Granasporites medius and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Granasporites medius and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Lycospora49 sites
- Laevigatosporites48 sites
- Punctatosporites47 sites
- Punctatisporites43 sites
- Thymospora40 sites
- Calamospora39 sites
- Florinites32 sites
- Triquitrites32 sites
- Crassispora kosankei27 sites
- Granulatisporites27 sites
- Apiculatasporites26 sites
- Laevigatosporites vulgaris26 sites
- Cyclogranisporites24 sites
- Raistrickia19 sites
- Spinosporites19 sites
- Cirratriradites18 sites
- Endosporites18 sites
- Deltoidospora15 sites
- Verrucosisporites14 sites
- Vestispora fenestrata12 sites
- Lophotriletes11 sites
- Pityosporites11 sites
- Wilsonites vesicatus11 sites
- Microreticulatisporites10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Granasporites medius, 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 drowned lycopsid forest above the Mahoning Coal (Conemaugh Group, Upper Pennsylvanian) in eastern Ohio, U.S.A24
- Palynological Correlation of major Pennsylvanian (Middle and Upper Carboniferous) chronostratigraphic boundaries in the Illinois and other coal basins18
- Palynology of the Lost Branch Formation of Kansas--new insights on the major floral transition at the Middle-Upper Pennsylvanian boundary7
Each of the 49 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
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No picture of Granasporites medius 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 Granasporites medius 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 of Granasporites medius was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.