Astropegma
No picture of Astropegma 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 Astropegma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VentriculitinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Astropegma on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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- Late Cretaceous100%
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.
Astropegma and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Astropegma and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Aphrocallistes cylindrodactylus3 sites
- Coeloscyphia racemosa3 sites
- Coscinopora infundibuliformis3 sites
- Etheridgia mirabilis3 sites
- Laocoetis fittoni3 sites
- Leiostracosia angustata3 sites
- Leptophragma micropora3 sites
- Periphragella plicata3 sites
- Polyopesia angustata3 sites
- Rhizopoterion3 sites
- Spirolophia tortuosa3 sites
- Sporadoscinia alcyonoides3 sites
- Aphrocallistes2 sites
- Becksia plicata2 sites
- Cinclidella angustata2 sites
- Coeloptychium subagaricoides2 sites
- Laocoetis virgatula2 sites
- Lefroyella favoidea2 sites
- Plocoscyphia communis2 sites
- Porochonia simplex2 sites
- Sporadoscinia stirps2 sites
- Sporadoscinia venosa2 sites
- Verrucocoelia alpina2 sites
- Verrucocoelia tubulata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Astropegma, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Astropegma 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 Astropegma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astropegma 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 itVentriculitinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pomel 1872