Hystricosporites porcatus
No picture of Hystricosporites porcatus was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Hystricosporites porcatus 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 24 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Hystricosporites porcatus 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
3 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
3 formations
- Venango Formation1
- Foreknobs Formation · Greenland Gap Group1
- Escuminac Formation1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Hystricosporites porcatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hystricosporites porcatus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Hystricosporites porcatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
112 taxa- Ancyrospora sp.3 sites
- Convolutispora3 sites
- Emphanisporites3 sites
- Geminospora3 sites
- Retusotriletes3 sites
- Verrucosisporites3 sites
- Anapiculatisporites2 sites
- Ancyrospora ancyrea2 sites
- Biharisporites2 sites
- Calamospora2 sites
- Dictyotriletes2 sites
- Emphanisporites rotatus2 sites
- Grandispora2 sites
- Punctatisporites2 sites
- Rhabdosporites2 sites
- Acanthotriletes1 site
- Acinosporites macrospinosus1 site
- Anaplanisporites parviconus1 site
- Ancyrospora ? ancyrea1 site
- Ancyrospora brevispinosa1 site
- Ancyrospora carnarvonensis1 site
- Ancyrospora cf. langii1 site
- Ancyrospora convoluta1 site
- Ancyrospora longispinosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Hystricosporites porcatus, 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- Comparison of the Escuminac Formation ichthyofauna with other late Givetian/early Frasnian ichthyofaunas1
- 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
- Miospores from the Upper Devonian (Frasnian) Greenland Gap Group, Allegheny Front, Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia, U.S.A1
Each of the 3 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 Hystricosporites porcatus was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Hystricosporites porcatus 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 Hystricosporites porcatus 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 itFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.