Asterolepis syasiensis
No picture of Asterolepis syasiensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 syasiensis, 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 3.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 379 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Asterolepis syasiensis 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.
Asterolepis syasiensis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Asterolepis syasiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Asterolepis ornata1 site
- Asterolepis radiata1 site
- Atopacanthus1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Devononchus concinnus1 site
- Dipteridae1 site
- Glyptolepis1 site
- Haplacanthus1 site
- Holoptychius1 site
- Laccognathus1 site
- Onychodus1 site
- Osteolepididae1 site
- Palaeoniscidae1 site
- Panderichthys1 site
- Plourdosteus livonicus1 site
- Psammosteus praecursor1 site
- Ptyctodontida1 site
- Ptyctodus1 site
- Tartuosteus zheleznogorskensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Asterolepis syasiensis, 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
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No picture of Asterolepis syasiensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 syasiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Asterolepis syasiensis 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. Lyarskaya 1981