Palaeospongiosporis europaeus
No picture of Palaeospongiosporis europaeus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Palaeospongiosporis europaeus 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.
Time the record covers
At least 4.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 227.3 Mya.
15 occurrences of Palaeospongiosporis europaeus on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
15 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Palaeospongiosporis europaeus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Palaeospongiosporis europaeus and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Palaeospongiosporis europaeus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Lunatisporites13 sites
- Platysaccus11 sites
- Camerosporites secatus9 sites
- Microcachrydites8 sites
- Paracirculina scurrilis8 sites
- Cuneatisporites7 sites
- Enzonalasporites vigens7 sites
- Triadispora plicata7 sites
- Aratrisporites6 sites
- Triadispora crassa6 sites
- Duplicisporites5 sites
- Kuglerina meieri5 sites
- Patinasporites densus5 sites
- Triadispora5 sites
- Angustisulcites klausii4 sites
- Brachysaccus4 sites
- Cristianisporites triangulatus4 sites
- Densoisporites4 sites
- Falcisporites4 sites
- Infernopollenites4 sites
- Ovalipollis4 sites
- Podosporites4 sites
- Sellaspora rugoverrucata4 sites
- Cyclotriletes3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Palaeospongiosporis europaeus, 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 referenceEach of the 15 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
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No picture of Palaeospongiosporis europaeus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Palaeospongiosporis europaeus 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 Palaeospongiosporis europaeus 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 itFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.