Sporites

No picture of Sporites was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Sporites 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 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 192.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Permian — about 32 of 36 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 2 of 36 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 36 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 36 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 36 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 36 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 36 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 36 occurrences262–258 Mya — about 7 occurrences258–254 Mya — about 16 occurrences254–250 Mya — about 11 occurrences201–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–189 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences189–185 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences181–177 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences177–173 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences173–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences254.14 Mya192.9 Mya262 Mya141 Mya

36 occurrences of Sporites on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

36 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

14 formations

Zechstein Limestone — 50.83°N, 20.67°ETerrigenious Series — 50.83°N, 20.67°ETop Terrigenous Series — 50.83°N, 20.67°EUpper Anhydrite — 50.83°N, 20.67°EPlaty Dolomite — 50.83°N, 20.67°ELower Buntsandstein — 50.83°N, 20.67°EGrey Pelite — 50.83°N, 20.67°ECopper Shale — 50.83°N, 20.67°ELower Anhydrate — 50.83°N, 20.67°EMain Anhydrite — 50.83°N, 20.67°ELower Anhydrate A1d — 50.83°N, 20.67°ETop Terrigenious Series — 50.83°N, 20.67°EZechstein Salzton — 50.55°N, 9.67°ENeringskaya — 54.85°N, 20.88°E

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The named rock units Sporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sporites and its relatives

Permian

Where Sporites and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

106 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Sporites, 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 36 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

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

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Sporites 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 Sporites 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 1893