Horstisporites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LycophytaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 129 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 37 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 37 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 9 of 37 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 4 of 37 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 37 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 37 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 15 of 37 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 37 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 37 occurrences251–244 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences244–238 Mya — about 1 occurrence238–232 Mya — about 1 occurrence232–226 Mya — about 1 occurrence226–219 Mya — about 2 occurrences219–213 Mya — about 2 occurrences213–207 Mya — about 2 occurrences207–200 Mya — about 2 occurrences200–194 Mya — about 3 occurrences194–188 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences175–169 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–138 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences138–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–125 Mya — about 2 occurrences125–119 Mya — about 5 occurrences119–113 Mya — about 3 occurrences113–106 Mya — about 2 occurrences106–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences87–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–75 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences75–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence201.4 Mya72.2 Mya251 Mya62 Mya

37 occurrences of Horstisporites on record, most of them in the Early 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

37 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

Bhuj — 23.32°N, 69.77°EBhuj — 23.08°N, 69.60°EBhuj — 23.43°N, 69.13°EBhuj — 23.48°N, 69.27°EBhuj — 23.68°N, 68.87°ERonne — 55.17°N, 15.00°EBagå — 55.17°N, 15.00°EBrazeau — 52.72°N, 116.00°WBaquero — 48.52°S, 69.25°WBaquero — 48.45°S, 69.12°WBattle — 51.08°N, 113.05°WRintoul Creek — 38.12°S, 146.50°EEumeralla — 38.77°S, 143.25°EArcillas Fragmentosus — 50.00°S, 69.58°WPalermo Aike — 50.55°S, 69.25°WZbaszynek Beds/Wielichowo Beds — 50.68°N, 18.65°E

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The named rock units Horstisporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Horstisporites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Horstisporites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

223 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Horstisporites, 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 37 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 Horstisporites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Horstisporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Horstisporites 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.

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What may have been alongside itLycophyta through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Potonié 1956