Actinostroma

No picture of Actinostroma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Actinostroma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ActinostromatidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea

Time the record covers

At least 84 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 328 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 11 of 328 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 316 of 328 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 328 occurrences460–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–450 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450–446 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences440–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences433–429 Mya — about 4 occurrences429–426 Mya — about 2 occurrences426–422 Mya — about 4 occurrences422–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences419–415 Mya — about 1 occurrence415–412 Mya — about 8 occurrences412–409 Mya — about 15 occurrences409–405 Mya — about 9 occurrences405–402 Mya — about 9 occurrences402–398 Mya — about 9 occurrences398–395 Mya — about 9 occurrences395–391 Mya — about 17 occurrences391–388 Mya — about 24 occurrences388–384 Mya — about 66 occurrences384–381 Mya — about 65 occurrences381–378 Mya — about 40 occurrences378–374 Mya — about 26 occurrences374–371 Mya — about 14 occurrences371–367 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences367–364 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences364–360 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449.5 Mya365.2 Mya460 Mya357 Mya

328 occurrences of Actinostroma on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

328 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

89 formations

Santa Lucia — 42.97°N, 6.20°WSanta Lucia — 42.87°N, 5.28°WSanta Lucia — 42.87°N, 5.42°WSanta Lucia — 42.88°N, 5.10°WSanta Lucia — 42.84°N, 5.65°WKowala — 50.82°N, 20.58°EKowala — 50.80°N, 20.47°EKowala — 50.73°N, 20.45°EKowala — 50.87°N, 20.48°EKowala — 50.83°N, 20.67°EKowala — 50.63°N, 21.37°EBlacourt — 50.83°N, 1.77°EVilemovice — 49.30°N, 16.75°EVilemovice — 49.33°N, 16.73°EVilemovice — 49.20°N, 16.70°ELazanky — 49.57°N, 17.25°ELazanky — 49.30°N, 16.75°ELazanky — 49.35°N, 16.72°EMoniello — 43.58°N, 5.97°WCoopers Creek Limestone — 38.15°S, 146.47°EKoneprusy — 49.92°N, 14.07°EBrilon Massenkalk — 51.42°N, 8.58°EBrilon Massenkalk — 51.45°N, 8.62°EJemelle — 50.05°N, 4.52°ELeduc — 53.95°N, 113.10°WMacocha — 49.23°N, 16.76°EPillara — 17.50°S, 125.00°EPillara — 17.40°S, 124.95°EQiziqiao — 27.83°N, 111.58°EQiziqiao — 27.40°N, 111.27°ECairn — 53.18°N, 118.28°WCairn — 51.90°N, 115.93°WCairn — 50.75°N, 115.08°WCairn — 52.30°N, 116.65°WCairn — 52.07°N, 116.12°WMechra Ben Abbou — 32.97°N, 7.76°WMechra Ben Abbou — 32.64°N, 7.76°WAcanthopyge — 49.92°N, 14.07°ETungkangling — 25.30°N, 107.40°EUnterhonsel — 51.36°N, 7.70°EUnterhonsel — 51.40°N, 7.81°EMikkwa — 58.39°N, 114.83°WSolonchatskaya — 51.77°N, 59.10°EDushan — 25.42°N, 107.38°EDushan — 25.83°N, 107.57°ESin Ghar — 34.33°N, 68.40°EDawson Bay — 51.61°N, 99.80°W

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The named rock units Actinostroma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 65 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Actinostroma and its relatives

Devonian

Where Actinostroma and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

983 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Actinostroma, 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

90 references

Each of the 328 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. 78 further references are not listed. 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 Actinostroma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Actinostroma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Actinostroma 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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What may have been alongside itActinostromatidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nicholson 1886