Thymospora

No picture of Thymospora was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Thymospora 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
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Time the record covers

At least 145 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 68 of 86 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 9 of 86 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 8 of 86 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 86 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 86 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 86 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 86 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 86 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 86 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 86 occurrences328–320 Mya — about 2 occurrences320–312 Mya — about 9 occurrences312–305 Mya — about 32 occurrences305–297 Mya — about 25 occurrences297–289 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences289–281 Mya — about 1 occurrence281–274 Mya — about 1 occurrence274–266 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences266–258 Mya — about 3 occurrences258–251 Mya — about 10 occurrences166–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307 Mya161.5 Mya328 Mya96 Mya

86 occurrences of Thymospora 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

86 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

16 formations

Lost Branch — 37.19°N, 95.42°WLost Branch — 37.83°N, 94.98°WCarbondale — 40.00°N, 88.00°WCarbondale — 39.00°N, 87.00°WSpoon — 40.00°N, 88.00°WShelburn — 39.04°N, 87.28°WShelburn — 37.91°N, 88.80°WShelburn — 39.50°N, 90.04°WHoldenville — 36.59°N, 95.71°WHoldenville — 35.98°N, 96.00°WHoldenville — 36.77°N, 95.69°WConemaugh — 39.71°N, 80.83°WConemaugh — 40.34°N, 80.67°WNowata — 40.00°N, 93.44°WNowata — 37.12°N, 95.42°WMemorial — 37.16°N, 95.47°WMemorial — 37.18°N, 95.42°WTacket — 37.19°N, 95.42°WFlowerpot — 36.30°N, 98.53°WWellington — 36.00°N, 97.00°WSeminole — 37.26°N, 93.86°WLake Murray — 34.29°N, 96.97°WRaniganj — 23.90°N, 87.00°EBhuj — 23.60°N, 69.00°EVrchlabí — 50.63°N, 15.61°E

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The named rock units Thymospora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thymospora and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Thymospora and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

591 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Thymospora, 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

9 references

Each of the 86 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 Thymospora was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Thymospora 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.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Wilson and Venkatachala