Microspermopteris
No picture of Microspermopteris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Microspermopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PteridospermophytaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 60 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Microspermopteris on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Microspermopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Microspermopteris and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Microspermopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
86 taxa- Anachoropteris7 sites
- Botryopteris7 sites
- Heterangium7 sites
- Sphenophyllum7 sites
- Amyelon radicans6 sites
- Arthropitys6 sites
- Etapteris6 sites
- Lepidocarpon6 sites
- Lyginopteris oldhamia6 sites
- Myeloxylon6 sites
- Ankyropteris5 sites
- Bothrodendron5 sites
- Calamostachys5 sites
- Conostoma5 sites
- Cordaites5 sites
- Diaphorodendron vasculare5 sites
- Lepidophloios5 sites
- Lepidostrobus5 sites
- Medullosa anglica5 sites
- Psalixochlaena cylindrica5 sites
- Stauropteris oldhamia5 sites
- Astromyelon4 sites
- Bowmanites4 sites
- Lagenostoma4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Microspermopteris, 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
2 references- Coal-ball floras of the Namurian-Westphalian of Europe7
- Quantitative Analysis and Paleoecology of the Secor Coal and Roof-Shale Floras (Middle Pennsylvanian, Oklahoma)1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Microspermopteris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Microspermopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Microspermopteris 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPteridospermophyta through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Baxter 1949