Palaeastrum

A picture published with the record for Palaeastrum. What it shows has not been checked.

Ross P. Anderson, Sanaa Mughal and George O. Wedlake · CC BY 4.0 · 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
EukaryaPBDB

Time the record covers

At most 480 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1200 Mya and 720 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

1210–1193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1193–1176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1176–1160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1160–1143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1143–1126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1126–1110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1110–1093 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1093–1076 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1076–1060 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1060–1043 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1043–1027 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1027–1010 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1010–993 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences993–977 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences977–960 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences960–943 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences943–927 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences927–910 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences910–893 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences893–877 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences877–860 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences860–844 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences844–827 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences827–810 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences810–794 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences794–777 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences777–760 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences760–744 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences744–727 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences727–710 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1210 Mya710 Mya

4 occurrences of Palaeastrum on record. 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

4 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

2 formations

Galeros — 36.14°N, 111.83°WNelson Head — 67.62°N, 115.73°W

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

Found in the same rock

42 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Palaeastrum, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Palaeastrum

Credit
Ross P. Anderson, Sanaa Mughal and George O. Wedlake
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Palaeastrum 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 itEukarya through time

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Butterfield et al. 1994