Periastron

No picture of Periastron was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Periastron 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 Periastron, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PteridospermophytaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 383.4 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 385.9 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 8 of 13 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 5 of 13 occurrencesCarboniferous387–385 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences374–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372–370 Mya — about 1 occurrence370–368 Mya — about 1 occurrence368–365 Mya — about 1 occurrence365–363 Mya — about 1 occurrence363–361 Mya — about 1 occurrence361–359 Mya — about 1 occurrence359–357 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences357–355 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences355–352 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences352–350 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences350–348 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences348–346 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences337–335 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences335–333 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences383.4 Mya358.86 Mya387 Mya322 Mya

13 occurrences of Periastron 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

13 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

4 formations

New Albany Shale — 37.58°N, 84.80°WNew Albany Shale — 38.28°N, 85.82°WSanderson — 37.78°N, 85.67°WSanderson — 37.58°N, 85.80°WSanderson — 37.63°N, 85.40°WLydienne — 43.42°N, 2.45°ECypridina Shale — 51.27°N, 11.00°E

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The named rock units Periastron has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Periastron and its relatives

Devonian

Where Periastron and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

59 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Periastron, 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

7 references

Each of the 13 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 content1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No picture of Periastron was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Periastron 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 Periastron, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itPteridospermophyta through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Unger 1856