Hystricosporites multifurcatus
No picture of Hystricosporites multifurcatus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Hystricosporites multifurcatus 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.
Time the record covers
At most 47 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 346.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Hystricosporites multifurcatus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
8 occurrences- Devonian51%
- Carboniferous49%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Hystricosporites multifurcatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hystricosporites multifurcatus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Hystricosporites multifurcatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Grandispora4 sites
- Ancyrospora ? capillata3 sites
- Ancyrospora furcula3 sites
- Contagisporites spp.3 sites
- Hystricosporites cf. multifurcatus3 sites
- Hystricosporites delectabilis3 sites
- Ancyrospora angulata2 sites
- Ancyrospora hookensis2 sites
- Auritolagenicula auritula2 sites
- Auritolagenicula rugulata2 sites
- Hystricosporites pauculus2 sites
- Hystricosporites winslovii2 sites
- Triangulartisporites ? leinsterensis2 sites
- Trileites2 sites
- <Spore Type B>1 site
- Ancyrospora cf. acutispinosus1 site
- Ancyrospora cf. multiacicularis1 site
- Ancyrospora sp.1 site
- Aneurospora greggsii1 site
- Archaeotriletes senticosus1 site
- Auroraspora hyalina1 site
- Auroraspora macra1 site
- Auroraspora solisorta1 site
- Auroraspora torquata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Hystricosporites multifurcatus, 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- Megaspores from the uppermost Devonian (Strunian) of Hook Head, County Wexford, Ireland6
- Bisporangiostrobus harrisii gen. et sp. nov., An eligulate lycopsid cone with duosporites megaspores and geminospora microspores from the Upper Devonian of Pennsylvania, U.S.A1
- Devonian Megaspores from the Wyboston Borehole, Bedfordshire, England1
Each of the 8 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Hystricosporites multifurcatus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Hystricosporites multifurcatus 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 Hystricosporites multifurcatus 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.