Asteropyginae

Asteropyginae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcastidaePBDB
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 least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 146 occurrencesDevonian — about 146 of 146 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 146 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 1 occurrence417–415 Mya — about 1 occurrence415–412 Mya — about 6 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 13 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 3 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 3 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 3 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 3 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 3 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 10 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 12 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 12 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 6 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 7 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 6 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 5 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 6 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 13 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 14 occurrences379–377 Mya — about 7 occurrences377–374 Mya — about 6 occurrences374–372 Mya — about 6 occurrences372–370 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences370–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413.02 Mya375.2 Mya421 Mya358 Mya

146 occurrences of Asteropyginae 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

146 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

72 formations

Beaulieu — 50.83°N, 1.77°EIhandar — 30.84°N, 4.92°WIhandar — 30.96°N, 5.02°WIhandar — 30.73°N, 4.64°WPortilla — 42.83°N, 5.65°WPortilla — 41.05°N, 3.33°WPortilla — 42.82°N, 5.27°WPortilla — 42.97°N, 5.85°WMoulin Liénaux — 50.08°N, 4.56°EMoulin Liénaux — 50.27°N, 5.43°EMoulin Liénaux — 50.22°N, 5.32°EAmerboh — 31.38°N, 4.07°WAmerboh — 31.37°N, 4.05°WBolast — 48.40°N, 4.48°WGrands Breux — 50.07°N, 4.51°EGrands Breux — 50.67°N, 5.38°EKess Kess — 31.37°N, 7.30°WKess Kess — 31.75°N, 4.50°WNogueras — 41.00°N, 1.00°WBahram — 30.87°N, 57.07°EBahram — 33.00°N, 52.10°EChamp Broquet — 50.67°N, 4.38°EChamp Broquet — 50.08°N, 4.50°ELebanza — 42.97°N, 4.52°WLebanza — 41.88°N, 6.42°WAin Targa — 33.12°N, 7.93°WHamar Laghdad Limestone — 31.38°N, 4.07°WHamar Laghdad Limestone — 31.75°N, 4.50°WKartal — 40.90°N, 29.18°EReun Ar C'hrank — 48.40°N, 4.48°WBen An Arreun — 48.40°N, 4.48°WLe Fret — 48.40°N, 4.48°WVerveur — 48.40°N, 4.48°WKersadiou — 48.30°N, 4.51°WLanvoy — 48.40°N, 4.48°WRostiviec — 48.40°N, 4.48°WArauz — 42.97°N, 0.87°WMariposas — 41.13°N, 1.07°W

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The named rock units Asteropyginae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Asteropyginae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Asteropyginae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

847 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 112 sites for Asteropyginae, 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

43 references

Each of the 146 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. 31 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 content1

Picture of Asteropyginae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Delo 1935