Punctatisporites

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

Time the record covers

At least 370 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 396 occurrencesSilurian — about 2 of 396 occurrencesDevonian — about 47 of 396 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 260 of 396 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 41 of 396 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 28 of 396 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 396 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 396 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 396 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 396 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 396 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 396 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 396 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 396 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 396 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 396 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 396 occurrences452–437 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences437–422 Mya — about 1 occurrence422–408 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences408–393 Mya — about 2 occurrences393–379 Mya — about 37 occurrences379–364 Mya — about 6 occurrences364–350 Mya — about 2 occurrences350–335 Mya — about 2 occurrences335–320 Mya — about 14 occurrences320–306 Mya — about 144 occurrences306–291 Mya — about 104 occurrences291–277 Mya — about 17 occurrences277–262 Mya — about 7 occurrences262–248 Mya — about 39 occurrences248–233 Mya — about 5 occurrences233–219 Mya — about 1 occurrence219–204 Mya — about 1 occurrence204–189 Mya — about 2 occurrences175–160 Mya — about 1 occurrence160–146 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences146–131 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences131–117 Mya — about 3 occurrences117–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426.7 Mya56 Mya452 Mya15 Mya

396 occurrences of Punctatisporites 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

396 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

56 formations

Carbondale — 40.00°N, 88.00°WCarbondale — 39.00°N, 87.00°WLost Branch — 37.20°N, 95.42°WLost Branch — 37.83°N, 94.98°WSpoon — 40.00°N, 88.00°WWild Cow — 35.00°N, 106.67°WGneudna — 26.00°S, 115.00°EGneudna — 23.00°S, 116.00°ESeminole — 37.26°N, 93.86°WSeminole — 37.15°N, 95.47°WSeminole — 37.18°N, 95.42°WSeminole — 36.08°N, 95.05°WSeminole — 36.78°N, 95.69°WHepler Unit — 37.83°N, 94.98°WShelburn — 37.89°N, 87.71°WShelburn — 39.04°N, 87.28°WShelburn — 37.91°N, 88.80°WShelburn — 39.50°N, 90.04°WRiverton — 37.27°N, 94.68°WRiverton — 37.60°N, 94.10°WTradewater — 37.56°N, 88.51°WTradewater — 37.56°N, 88.79°WTradewater — 37.50°N, 88.01°WUnnamed — 38.64°N, 94.40°WUnnamed — 40.23°N, 93.13°WUnnamed — 39.00°N, 93.97°WNowata — 40.00°N, 93.44°WNowata — 37.12°N, 95.42°WForeknobs — 39.82°N, 78.80°WLower Buntsandstein — 50.83°N, 20.67°EMansfield — 38.56°N, 86.65°WHoldenville — 36.59°N, 95.71°WHoldenville — 35.98°N, 96.00°WHoldenville — 36.77°N, 95.69°WPatoka — 39.45°N, 89.95°WPatoka — 39.49°N, 90.02°WPatoka — 39.48°N, 90.10°WHartshorne — 35.68°N, 95.26°WCsopak — 47.34°N, 17.68°ELagares — 30.17°S, 67.25°WKarharbari — 23.80°N, 85.20°EKarharbari — 23.40°N, 80.90°EKarharbari — 24.30°N, 86.20°EHunsrück Slate — 49.89°N, 7.47°EBernburg — 51.95°N, 10.22°EFremouw — 84.00°S, 165.00°E

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The named rock units Punctatisporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 32 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 128 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Punctatisporites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Punctatisporites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,393 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 233 sites for Punctatisporites, 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

41 references

Each of the 396 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. 29 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

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

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Punctatisporites 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 Punctatisporites 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Potonié and Kremp 1954