Vestispora fenestrata
No picture of Vestispora fenestrata was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Vestispora fenestrata 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 least 1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 307 Mya to 306 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
41 occurrences of Vestispora fenestrata 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
41 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
13 formations
- Carbondale Formation · Kewanee Group10
- Spoon Formation · Kewanee Group5
- Shelburn Formation · McLeansboro Group4
- Seminole Formation · Pleasanton Group3
- Lost Branch Formation2
- Memorial Formation2
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The named rock units Vestispora fenestrata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Vestispora fenestrata and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Vestispora fenestrata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
119 taxa- Laevigatosporites41 sites
- Triquitrites41 sites
- Florinites40 sites
- Calamospora39 sites
- Cyclogranisporites38 sites
- Endosporites36 sites
- Punctatisporites36 sites
- Granulatisporites34 sites
- Lycospora32 sites
- Microreticulatisporites29 sites
- Wilsonites vesicatus28 sites
- Raistrickia27 sites
- Thymospora26 sites
- Cirratriradites24 sites
- Laevigatosporites vulgaris24 sites
- Apiculatasporites19 sites
- Verrucosisporites19 sites
- Punctatosporites18 sites
- Wilsonites delicatus18 sites
- Vesicaspora17 sites
- Deltoidospora16 sites
- Anapiculatisporites15 sites
- Crassispora plicata15 sites
- Lophotriletes15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Vestispora fenestrata, 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- Palynological Correlation of major Pennsylvanian (Middle and Upper Carboniferous) chronostratigraphic boundaries in the Illinois and other coal basins20
- Correlation and Palynology of Coals in the Carbondale and Spoon Formations (Pennsylvanian) of the Northeastern Part of the Illinois Basin15
- Palynology of the Lost Branch Formation of Kansas--new insights on the major floral transition at the Middle-Upper Pennsylvanian boundary6
Each of the 41 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 Vestispora fenestrata was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Vestispora fenestrata 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 fenestrata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.