Asteriacites lumbricalis

Asteriacites lumbricalis

Uncredited · 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
AsteriacitesPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 2.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 250.8 Mya to 248.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.1 Mya to 247 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 11 of 11 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 11 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250.8 Mya248.6 Mya251.6 Mya246.5 Mya

11 occurrences of Asteriacites lumbricalis on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

11 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

3 formations

Moenkopi — 36.60°N, 114.57°WMoenkopi — 36.55°N, 114.61°WWerfen — 46.38°N, 11.85°EThaynes — 40.12°N, 111.65°W

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The named rock units Asteriacites lumbricalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Asteriacites lumbricalis and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Asteriacites lumbricalis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Asteriacites lumbricalis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 reference

Each of the 11 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

Media content2

Picture of Asteriacites lumbricalis

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itAsteriacites through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Seilacher 1953