Limitisporites

No picture of Limitisporites 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 Limitisporites 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 294 million years on record.

The record covers at least 306 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 312.8 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 12 of 202 occurrencesPermian — about 185 of 202 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 3 of 202 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 202 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 202 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 202 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 202 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 202 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 202 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 202 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 202 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 202 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 202 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 202 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 202 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 202 occurrences319–308 Mya — about 8 occurrences308–298 Mya — about 5 occurrences298–287 Mya — about 10 occurrences287–276 Mya — about 14 occurrences276–266 Mya — about 11 occurrences266–255 Mya — about 85 occurrences255–245 Mya — about 67 occurrences85–74 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences74–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences306 Mya11.63 Mya319 Mya0 Mya

202 occurrences of Limitisporites 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

202 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

35 formations

Zechstein Limestone — 50.83°N, 20.67°ETerrigenious Series — 50.83°N, 20.67°EKingscourt Gypsum — 53.90°N, 6.79°WLost Branch — 37.20°N, 95.42°WLost Branch — 37.83°N, 94.98°WGroedner Sandstein — 46.57°N, 11.67°EGroedner Sandstein — 46.35°N, 11.35°EGroedner Sandstein — 46.68°N, 11.40°EGroedner Sandstein — 46.35°N, 11.40°EUpper Anhydrite — 50.83°N, 20.67°ETop Terrigenous Series — 50.83°N, 20.67°EPlaty Dolomite — 50.83°N, 20.67°EArqov — 31.67°N, 34.83°EArqov — 31.60°N, 34.70°EBellerophon — 46.37°N, 11.65°EMain Anhydrite — 50.83°N, 20.67°ELower Anhydrate A1d — 50.83°N, 20.67°ELower Anhydrate — 50.83°N, 20.67°ELeine — 51.67°N, 10.02°ELeine — 50.37°N, 9.15°ELeine — 51.15°N, 10.00°ELeine — 52.12°N, 10.67°ECopper Shale — 50.83°N, 20.67°ESa'ad — 31.67°N, 34.83°ESa'ad — 31.67°N, 34.58°EVal Gardena — 45.72°N, 11.18°EVal Gardena — 46.67°N, 11.15°EKovagoszolos — 46.08°N, 18.13°EGrey Pelite — 50.83°N, 20.67°EWerra — 51.50°N, 6.53°EWerra — 50.55°N, 9.67°EBoda — 46.07°N, 18.00°EJakabhegy — 46.08°N, 18.13°ETop Terrigenious Series — 50.83°N, 20.67°EBasal Conglomerate — 50.83°N, 20.67°E

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The named rock units Limitisporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 46 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Limitisporites and its relatives

Permian

Where Limitisporites and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

503 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 134 sites for Limitisporites, 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

17 references

Each of the 202 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. 5 further references are 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

Media content0

No picture of Limitisporites 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 Limitisporites 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leschik 1956