Asteroxylon

No picture of Asteroxylon was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Asteroxylon itself, so it was not used. 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 Asteroxylon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LycopodophytaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Devonian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesDevonian414–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences410.62 Mya387.95 Mya413.6 Mya381.7 Mya

3 occurrences of Asteroxylon 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

3 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

3 formations

Dryden Flags — 57.34°N, 2.85°WHonseler Schichten — 51.25°N, 7.17°EMalbaie — 48.63°N, 64.32°W

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The named rock units Asteroxylon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Asteroxylon and its relatives

Devonian

Where Asteroxylon and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

39 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Asteroxylon, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 Asteroxylon was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Asteroxylon itself, so it was not used.

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 Asteroxylon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Asteroxylon was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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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What may have been alongside itLycopodophyta through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kidston and Lang 1920