Asterocyathus

No picture of Asterocyathus 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 Asterocyathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AsterocyathidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At most 8.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 512.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

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10 occurrences of Asterocyathus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

10 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

5 formations

Usa — 56.00°N, 88.00°EUsa — 54.23°N, 90.82°EUst'kundat — 56.00°N, 88.00°EUpper Monok — 52.83°N, 90.25°EGavrilovskoe — 54.47°N, 85.63°ETummattaygin — 52.08°N, 96.08°E

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

Asterocyathus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Asterocyathus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

87 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Asterocyathus, 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

4 references

Each of the 10 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 content0

No picture of Asterocyathus 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 Asterocyathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Asterocyathus 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 itAsterocyathidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vologdin 1940