Asterocarpinus perplexans
No picture of Asterocarpinus perplexans was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Asterocarpinus perplexans 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 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Asterocarpinus perplexans on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Asterocarpinus perplexans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Asterocarpinus perplexans and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Asterocarpinus perplexans and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
180 taxa- Abies2 sites
- Angiospermae2 sites
- Carya2 sites
- Cedrela2 sites
- Cedrelospermum2 sites
- Crataegus2 sites
- Florissantia speirii2 sites
- Hydrangea2 sites
- Mahonia2 sites
- Platanus2 sites
- Quercus2 sites
- Rhus2 sites
- Ribes2 sites
- Torreya2 sites
- Acer1 site
- Acer cranei1 site
- Acer florissanti1 site
- Acer glabroides1 site
- Acer macginitiei1 site
- Acer oregonianum1 site
- Ailanthus americana1 site
- Alnus1 site
- Amelanchier scudderi1 site
- Antholithes amoenus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Asterocarpinus perplexans, 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
2 references- The Oligocene Bridge Creek flora of the John Day Formation, Oregon4
- Update on the Megafossil Flora of Florissant, Colorado1
Each of the 5 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Asterocarpinus perplexans was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Asterocarpinus perplexans 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 Asterocarpinus perplexans 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 OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.