Asteropyge perforata
No picture of Asteropyge perforata 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 Asteropyge perforata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AsteropygePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Acastidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 399.5 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Asteropyge perforata 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
4 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Asteropyge perforata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Asteropyge perforata and its relatives
DevonianWhere Asteropyge perforata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Paraspirifer2 sites
- Phacops2 sites
- Arduspirifer1 site
- Asteropyge (Comura)1 site
- Ceratarges1 site
- Ceratarges armatus1 site
- Coltraneia celtica1 site
- Cyrtina1 site
- Delocare1 site
- Geesops1 site
- Greenops1 site
- Gypidula1 site
- Hallandclarkeops cantarmoricus1 site
- Heliopyge1 site
- Icriodus1 site
- Leonaspis (Leonaspis)1 site
- Lepidoproetus1 site
- Leptostrophia1 site
- Otarion (Otarion)1 site
- Polygnathus costatus1 site
- Polygnathus linguiformis1 site
- Productella1 site
- Proetus (Gerastos)1 site
- Rhenocynproetus doernbergensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Asteropyge perforata, 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- Trilobiten aus mittlerem Devon des Rhenohercynikums: II. Proetida (2), Ptychopariida, Phacopida (1)1
- The Devonian of Celtiberia (Spain) and Devonian paleogeography of SW Europe1
- The stratigraphy and structure of the Devonian rocks around Liskeard, east Cornwall, with regional implications1
- Trilobites du Devonien (Emsien-Famennien) de la Rade de Brest (Massif Armoricain)1
Each of the 4 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 Asteropyge perforata 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 Asteropyge perforata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Asteropyge perforata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAsteropyge through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morzadec 1969)