Astrorhizidae

Astrorhizidae

Henry Bowman Brady (1835-1891) · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TextulariinaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Textulariina
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Textulariina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 432 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 290 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 70 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 70 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 70 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 35 of 70 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 70 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 70 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 70 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 70 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 70 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 7 of 70 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 70 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 70 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 70 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 70 occurrencesEocene — about 11 of 70 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 70 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 70 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 70 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 70 occurrences447–432 Mya — about 1 occurrence328–313 Mya — about 28 occurrences313–298 Mya — about 7 occurrences298–283 Mya — about 2 occurrences268–254 Mya — about 1 occurrence179–164 Mya — about 7 occurrences149–134 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences134–119 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences119–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–89 Mya — about 4 occurrences89–75 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences75–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–30 Mya — about 7 occurrences30–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences432.9 Mya290 ka447 Mya0 Mya

70 occurrences of Astrorhizidae on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

70 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

12 formations

Johns Valley — 34.48°N, 95.61°WJohns Valley — 34.70°N, 95.59°WJohns Valley — 34.79°N, 96.00°WJohns Valley — 34.79°N, 95.02°WJohns Valley — 34.73°N, 95.35°WJohns Valley — 34.75°N, 95.75°WJohns Valley — 34.77°N, 95.23°WJohns Valley — 34.82°N, 95.12°WJohns Valley — 34.88°N, 94.99°WJohns Valley — 34.60°N, 95.89°WJohns Valley — 34.45°N, 95.88°WDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°EWestgate — 51.58°N, 111.00°WWestgate — 53.00°N, 110.17°WGraham — 33.11°N, 98.61°WGraham — 33.05°N, 98.55°WLondon Clay — 51.85°N, 1.27°EMonte Cassio Flysch — 44.53°N, 10.92°ECallytharra — 25.88°S, 115.50°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.72°N, 23.07°ESundays River — 33.60°S, 25.65°EBelle Fourche — 51.58°N, 111.00°WBrandon Bridge — 43.00°N, 88.00°W? Thrifty — 32.53°N, 98.68°W

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The named rock units Astrorhizidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Astrorhizidae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Astrorhizidae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

245 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Astrorhizidae, 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

14 references

Each of the 70 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. 2 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 Astrorhizidae

Credit
Henry Bowman Brady (1835-1891)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Astrorhizidae 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 itTextulariina through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brady 1881