Mitrospermum

Mitrospermum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CordaitanthaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 307.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 300.3 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 9 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–356 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences354–352 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences352–350 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences350–348 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences348–346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences334–332 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences332–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–328 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences326–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–317 Mya — about 3 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 2 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346.7 Mya307.4 Mya360 Mya299 Mya

9 occurrences of Mitrospermum 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

9 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

1 formation

Duquense Coal — 40.37°N, 80.63°W

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The named rock units Mitrospermum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mitrospermum and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Mitrospermum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

102 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Mitrospermum, 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

4 references

Each of the 9 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 content1

Picture of Mitrospermum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Mitrospermum 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.

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What may have been alongside itCordaitanthaceae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arber 1910