Torispora securis
No picture of Torispora securis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Torispora securis 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.
Time the record covers
At most 25 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
21 occurrences of Torispora securis 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
21 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
10 formations
- Carbondale Formation · Kewanee Group7
- Lost Branch Formation4
- Spoon Formation · Kewanee Group2
- Tacket Formation1
- Shelburn Formation · McLeansboror Group1
- Holdenville Formation1
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The named rock units Torispora securis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Torispora securis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Torispora securis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
118 taxa- Laevigatosporites21 sites
- Lycospora21 sites
- Calamospora20 sites
- Cirratriradites20 sites
- Cyclogranisporites19 sites
- Endosporites19 sites
- Florinites19 sites
- Thymospora19 sites
- Triquitrites19 sites
- Granulatisporites18 sites
- Punctatisporites17 sites
- Raistrickia17 sites
- Microreticulatisporites16 sites
- Laevigatosporites vulgaris14 sites
- Lophotriletes14 sites
- Vestispora fenestrata14 sites
- Anapiculatisporites13 sites
- Verrucosisporites13 sites
- Wilsonites vesicatus13 sites
- Punctatosporites11 sites
- Vesicaspora11 sites
- Crassispora plicata9 sites
- Granulatisporites parvus9 sites
- Reticulatisporites9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Torispora securis, 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
3 references- Correlation and Palynology of Coals in the Carbondale and Spoon Formations (Pennsylvanian) of the Northeastern Part of the Illinois Basin9
- Palynological Correlation of major Pennsylvanian (Middle and Upper Carboniferous) chronostratigraphic boundaries in the Illinois and other coal basins7
- Palynology of the Lost Branch Formation of Kansas--new insights on the major floral transition at the Middle-Upper Pennsylvanian boundary5
Each of the 21 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 Torispora securis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Torispora securis 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 Torispora securis 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.