Asteracanthus ornatissimus

Asteracanthus ornatissimus

Agassiz, 1838 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AsteracanthusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 6 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 6 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 6 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 6 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrences203–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200–196 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences196–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–165 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences165–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences147–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161.5 Mya125.77 Mya203 Mya98 Mya

6 occurrences of Asteracanthus ornatissimus on record. 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

6 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

2 formations

Continental Intercalaire — 32.92°N, 10.19°EOxford Clay — 52.55°N, 0.24°W

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The named rock units Asteracanthus ornatissimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

31 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Asteracanthus ornatissimus, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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

Media content2

Picture of Asteracanthus ornatissimus

Credit
Agassiz, 1838
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itAsteracanthus through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1836