Asterolepis scabra
No picture of Asterolepis scabra 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 Asterolepis scabra, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AsterolepisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Placodermi
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Placodermi
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Placodermi
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Asterolepis scabra 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
1 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
1 formation
- Tordalen Formation · Mimerdalen Group1
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The named rock units Asterolepis scabra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Asterolepis scabra and its relatives
DevonianWhere Asterolepis scabra and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Acanthodii1 site
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Cheirolepis jonesi1 site
- Coccosteidae1 site
- Dictyonosteus arcticus1 site
- Onychodus arcticus1 site
- Psammolepis paradoxa1 site
- Psammolepis undulata1 site
- Psammosteidae1 site
- Psammosteus arenatus1 site
- Sarcopterygii1 site
- Serradentus armstrongi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Asterolepis scabra, 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 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content0
No picture of Asterolepis scabra 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 Asterolepis scabra, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Asterolepis scabra 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 itAsterolepis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodward 1891