Asterophyllites longifolius

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Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 37 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 30 of 37 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 7 of 37 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 37 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 1 occurrence354–350 Mya — about 1 occurrence350–346 Mya — about 1 occurrence346–342 Mya — about 1 occurrence342–339 Mya — about 1 occurrence339–335 Mya — about 1 occurrence335–331 Mya — about 1 occurrence331–328 Mya — about 1 occurrence328–324 Mya — about 1 occurrence324–320 Mya — about 2 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 3 occurrences317–313 Mya — about 3 occurrences313–309 Mya — about 3 occurrences309–305 Mya — about 3 occurrences305–302 Mya — about 2 occurrences302–298 Mya — about 2 occurrences298–294 Mya — about 2 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 2 occurrences291–287 Mya — about 2 occurrences287–283 Mya — about 2 occurrences283–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences272–268 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences265–261 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences261–257 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences257–253 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323.4 Mya298.9 Mya361 Mya250 Mya

37 occurrences of Asterophyllites longifolius 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

37 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

13 formations

Pottsville — 33.00°N, 87.00°WBreathitt — 37.08°N, 83.70°WLawrence Shale — 38.83°N, 95.38°WLawrence Shale — 38.77°N, 95.18°WGoldlauterer — 50.80°N, 10.60°ECumberland — 45.67°N, 62.70°WMinto — 46.08°N, 66.08°WManebacher — 50.80°N, 10.60°EOberhofer — 50.80°N, 10.60°EManning Canyon Shale — 40.28°N, 112.15°W"Weber" — 38.25°N, 106.30°WHartford Limestone — 37.00°N, 96.00°WFlöz Zweibänke — 52.32°N, 8.01°EMospyne — 48.24°N, 39.30°E

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The named rock units Asterophyllites longifolius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Asterophyllites longifolius and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Asterophyllites longifolius and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

195 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Asterophyllites longifolius, 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

17 references

Each of the 37 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. 5 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

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Picture of Asterophyllites longifolius

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No 3D scan of Asterophyllites longifolius was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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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