Lunatisporites fuscus

No picture of Lunatisporites fuscus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Lunatisporites fuscus 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LunatisporitesPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Permian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences258–256 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences254–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274.4 Mya259.857 Mya290.9 Mya251.1 Mya

7 occurrences of Lunatisporites fuscus 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

7 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.

Lunatisporites fuscus and its relatives

Permian

Where Lunatisporites fuscus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

182 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Lunatisporites fuscus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 7 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

Media content0

No picture of Lunatisporites fuscus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Lunatisporites fuscus 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 Lunatisporites fuscus 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. Bharadwaj 1962