Sporangites

No picture of Sporangites was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Sporangites 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 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 318.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 19 of 23 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 4 of 23 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 23 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–389 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences389–386 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences386–382 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences382–379 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences379–376 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences376–372 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences372–369 Mya — about 4 occurrences369–366 Mya — about 4 occurrences366–363 Mya — about 4 occurrences363–359 Mya — about 4 occurrences359–356 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences356–353 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences353–349 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences349–346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346–343 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences343–340 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences340–336 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences336–333 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences333–330 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences330–327 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences327–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 1 occurrence317–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–300 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300–297 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences382.31 Mya318.7 Mya395 Mya297 Mya

23 occurrences of Sporangites on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

23 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

3 formations

New Albany Shale — 37.58°N, 84.80°WNew Albany Shale — 37.60°N, 84.97°WNew Albany Shale — 38.27°N, 83.93°WNew Albany Shale — 36.85°N, 83.57°WNew Albany Shale — 37.78°N, 85.67°WNew Albany Shale — 37.38°N, 84.80°WNew Albany Shale — 38.28°N, 85.82°WNew Albany Shale — 37.57°N, 84.30°WNew Albany Shale — 37.67°N, 85.45°WNew Albany Shale — 37.88°N, 86.28°WNew Albany Shale — 38.60°N, 83.32°WOlentangy Shale — 39.97°N, 83.00°WLancaster — 45.24°N, 66.08°W

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The named rock units Sporangites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sporangites and its relatives

Devonian

Where Sporangites and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

135 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Sporangites, 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

6 references

Each of the 23 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

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

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Sporangites 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 Sporangites 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 itPlantae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dawson 1863