Asterophyllites

Asterophyllites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CalamitaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 289 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 167 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 114 of 167 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 52 of 167 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 167 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 167 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 167 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 167 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 167 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 167 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 167 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 167 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 167 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 167 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 167 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 167 occurrences366–354 Mya — about 6 occurrences354–342 Mya — about 14 occurrences342–330 Mya — about 14 occurrences330–318 Mya — about 21 occurrences318–306 Mya — about 36 occurrences306–294 Mya — about 37 occurrences294–283 Mya — about 29 occurrences283–271 Mya — about 2 occurrences271–259 Mya — about 4 occurrences259–247 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–9.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences323.4 Mya33.9 Mya366 Mya9 Mya

167 occurrences of Asterophyllites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

167 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

44 formations

Pottsville — 33.82°N, 87.42°WPottsville — 33.00°N, 87.00°WPottsville — 33.81°N, 87.17°WManebacher — 50.80°N, 10.60°EGoldlauterer — 50.80°N, 10.60°EBreathitt — 37.08°N, 83.70°WLawrence Shale — 38.83°N, 95.38°WLawrence Shale — 39.00°N, 95.00°WLawrence Shale — 38.77°N, 95.18°WLancaster — 45.24°N, 66.08°WCrab Orchard Mountains — 34.00°N, 85.00°WGehrener — 50.80°N, 10.60°EOberhofer — 50.80°N, 10.60°EManning Canyon Shale — 40.28°N, 112.15°WWild Cow — 34.75°N, 106.25°WSupai — 34.20°N, 111.00°WCarbondale — 41.00°N, 88.00°WCarbondale — 40.00°N, 90.00°WKozlu — 41.45°N, 31.82°EHartford Limestone — 37.00°N, 96.00°WFlöz Zweibänke — 52.32°N, 8.01°EPetersburg — 38.10°N, 87.18°WWeber? — 38.48°N, 105.92°WCumberland — 45.67°N, 62.70°WStellarton — 45.67°N, 62.70°WMinto — 46.08°N, 66.08°WBoggy — 35.50°N, 95.49°WDrywood — 38.00°N, 93.00°WBrazil — 39.13°N, 87.02°W

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The named rock units Asterophyllites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 57 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Asterophyllites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Asterophyllites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

475 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 91 sites for Asterophyllites, 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

59 references

Each of the 167 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. 47 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Asterophyllites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCalamitaceae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1828