Vestispora costata
No picture of Vestispora costata was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Vestispora costata 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 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 307 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Vestispora costata 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
3 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
2 formations
- Tradewater Formation2
- Mansfield Formation · Raccoon Creek Group1
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The named rock units Vestispora costata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Vestispora costata and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Vestispora costata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Densosporites3 sites
- Florinites3 sites
- Granulatisporites3 sites
- Lycospora3 sites
- Savitrisporites nux3 sites
- Ahrensisporites guerickei ornatus2 sites
- Apiculatasporites2 sites
- Calamospora2 sites
- Convolutispora2 sites
- Cyclogranisporites2 sites
- Deltoidospora2 sites
- Dictyotriletes2 sites
- Endosporites2 sites
- Laevigatosporites2 sites
- Lophotriletes2 sites
- Punctatisporites2 sites
- Punctatisporites irrasus2 sites
- Quasillinites diversiformis2 sites
- Raistrickia2 sites
- Renisporites confossus2 sites
- Reticulatisporites2 sites
- Sinuspores sinuatus2 sites
- Spackmanites habibii2 sites
- Verrucosisporites2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Vestispora costata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 Vestispora costata was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Vestispora costata 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 Vestispora costata 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 itFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.