Indospora
No picture of Indospora 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 Indospora 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.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlantaePBDB
Time the record covers
At least 39 million years on record.
The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
13 occurrences of Indospora on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
13 occurrences- Carboniferous23%
- Permian77%
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
- Raniganj Formation3
- Carbondale Formation · Kewanee Group2
- Conemaugh Formation1
- Barakar Formation1
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The named rock units Indospora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Indospora and its relatives
PermianWhere Indospora and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
370 taxa- Laevigatosporites7 sites
- Cyclogranisporites5 sites
- Leiotriletes5 sites
- Vesicaspora5 sites
- Calamospora4 sites
- Latosporites4 sites
- Punctatisporites4 sites
- Sulcatisporites4 sites
- Verrucosisporites4 sites
- Anapiculatisporites3 sites
- Cyclobaculisporites minutus3 sites
- Cyclogranisporites gondwanensis3 sites
- Cyclogranisporites optimus3 sites
- Endosporites3 sites
- Florinites3 sites
- Granulatisporites3 sites
- Horriditriletes curvibaculosus3 sites
- Lahirites3 sites
- Lophotriletes3 sites
- Lunatisporites3 sites
- Microfoveolatispora3 sites
- Punctatosporites3 sites
- Reticulatisporites3 sites
- Striatopodocarpites3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Indospora, 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 Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants10
- Correlation and Palynology of Coals in the Carbondale and Spoon Formations (Pennsylvanian) of the Northeastern Part of the Illinois Basin2
- Palynological Correlation of major Pennsylvanian (Middle and Upper Carboniferous) chronostratigraphic boundaries in the Illinois and other coal basins1
Each of the 13 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 Indospora 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 Indospora 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 was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPlantae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bharadwaj 1962