Punctatosporites

No picture of Punctatosporites 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 Punctatosporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 301 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 135 of 187 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 21 of 187 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 5 of 187 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 187 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 187 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 187 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 187 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 187 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 187 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 12 of 187 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 187 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 187 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 187 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 187 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 187 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 187 occurrences330–319 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences319–308 Mya — about 33 occurrences308–297 Mya — about 102 occurrences297–286 Mya — about 6 occurrences286–275 Mya — about 4 occurrences275–264 Mya — about 3 occurrences264–253 Mya — about 7 occurrences253–242 Mya — about 5 occurrences176–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences132–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–110 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences110–99 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–66 Mya — about 12 occurrences66–55 Mya — about 5 occurrences55–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences307 Mya5.333 Mya330 Mya0 Mya

187 occurrences of Punctatosporites 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

187 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

27 formations

Lost Branch — 37.19°N, 95.42°WLost Branch — 37.83°N, 94.98°WMonte Chico — 51.59°S, 72.41°WMonte Chico — 51.18°S, 72.29°WArqov — 31.67°N, 34.83°EArqov — 31.60°N, 34.70°EArqov — 31.67°N, 34.58°EShelburn — 39.04°N, 87.28°WShelburn — 37.91°N, 88.80°WShelburn — 39.50°N, 90.04°WSeminole — 37.26°N, 93.86°WSeminole — 37.18°N, 95.42°WSeminole — 37.16°N, 95.47°WSeminole — 36.78°N, 95.69°WWild Cow — 35.00°N, 106.67°WConemaugh — 39.71°N, 80.83°WConemaugh — 39.33°N, 82.13°WConemaugh — 40.34°N, 80.67°WHoldenville — 36.59°N, 95.71°WHoldenville — 35.98°N, 96.00°WHoldenville — 36.77°N, 95.69°WScollard — 51.93°N, 112.83°WPatoka — 39.45°N, 89.95°WPatoka — 39.48°N, 90.10°WUnnamed — 38.64°N, 94.40°WUnnamed — 40.23°N, 93.13°WNowata — 40.00°N, 93.44°WNowata — 37.12°N, 95.42°WMemorial — 37.16°N, 95.47°WMemorial — 37.18°N, 95.42°WLake Murray — 34.29°N, 96.97°WPaso del Sapo — 42.67°S, 70.01°WNaera — 24.00°N, 71.50°ENaera — 22.92°N, 69.68°ERaniganj — 23.90°N, 87.00°ERaniganj — 23.80°N, 85.20°ETacket — 37.19°N, 95.42°WFlowerpot — 36.30°N, 98.53°WBernburg — 52.12°N, 10.67°ECalcaires à Stipites — 44.18°N, 3.22°ESa'ad — 31.67°N, 34.58°EHertha — 39.46°N, 93.86°WHartshorne — 35.68°N, 95.26°W

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The named rock units Punctatosporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 100 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Punctatosporites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Punctatosporites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

780 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 133 sites for Punctatosporites, 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

15 references

Each of the 187 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. 3 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

Media content0

No picture of Punctatosporites 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 Punctatosporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Punctatosporites 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. Ibrahim 1933