Astrosphaeridae

No picture of Astrosphaeridae 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 Astrosphaeridae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpumellariaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 233 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 87 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 87 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 5 of 87 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 15 of 87 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 6 of 87 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 36 of 87 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 87 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 87 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 87 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 87 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 87 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 87 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 87 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences185–177 Mya — about 5 occurrences177–169 Mya — about 13 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–153 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences153–145 Mya — about 5 occurrences145–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–129 Mya — about 6 occurrences129–121 Mya — about 20 occurrences121–113 Mya — about 6 occurrences113–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–97 Mya — about 8 occurrences97–89 Mya — about 3 occurrences89–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–8.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences233.6 Mya11.7 ka242 Mya0 Mya

87 occurrences of Astrosphaeridae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

87 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

9 formations

Maiolica — 43.35°N, 12.71°EMaiolica — 43.48°N, 12.72°EMaiolica — 44.00°N, 14.00°EScaglia Bianca — 43.48°N, 12.72°EScaglia Bianca — 43.38°N, 12.62°EScisti a Fucoidi — 43.48°N, 12.72°ENusplingen Limestone — 48.12°N, 8.87°EAnchorage — 62.60°S, 61.17°WAmden — 47.75°N, 11.45°EMead Hill — 41.92°S, 174.07°EGoestling — 47.80°N, 14.93°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°E

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The named rock units Astrosphaeridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Astrosphaeridae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Astrosphaeridae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

811 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Astrosphaeridae, 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

17 references

Each of the 87 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. 5 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

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No picture of Astrosphaeridae 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 Astrosphaeridae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Astrosphaeridae 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.

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What may have been alongside itSpumellaria through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

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