Asterophyllites

Searched as Schlotheimia. The Paleobiology Database treats Asterophyllites as the accepted name.

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 289 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 233 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 114 of 233 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 52 of 233 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 233 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 233 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 233 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 66 of 233 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 233 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 233 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 233 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 233 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 233 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 233 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 233 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 233 occurrences366–354 Mya — about 6 occurrences354–342 Mya — about 14 occurrences342–330 Mya — about 14 occurrences330–318 Mya — about 21 occurrences318–306 Mya — about 36 occurrences306–294 Mya — about 37 occurrences294–283 Mya — about 29 occurrences283–271 Mya — about 2 occurrences271–259 Mya — about 4 occurrences259–247 Mya — about 2 occurrences211–199 Mya — about 57 occurrences199–187 Mya — about 7 occurrences187–176 Mya — about 1 occurrence176–164 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences164–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–9.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences323.4 Mya33.9 Mya366 Mya9 Mya

233 occurrences of Asterophyllites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

233 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

58 formations

Pottsville — 33.82°N, 87.42°WPottsville — 33.00°N, 87.00°WPottsville — 33.81°N, 87.17°WBlue Lias — 50.00°N, 2.00°WBlue Lias — 51.00°N, 3.00°WBlue Lias — 50.80°N, 3.03°WManebacher — 50.80°N, 10.60°EGoldlauterer — 50.80°N, 10.60°EBreathitt — 37.08°N, 83.70°WLawrence Shale — 38.83°N, 95.38°WLawrence Shale — 39.00°N, 95.00°WLawrence Shale — 38.77°N, 95.18°WLancaster — 45.24°N, 66.08°WSunrise — 38.81°N, 117.60°WSunrise — 38.49°N, 118.09°WCrab Orchard Mountains — 34.00°N, 85.00°WGehrener — 50.80°N, 10.60°EOberhofer — 50.80°N, 10.60°EManning Canyon Shale — 40.28°N, 112.15°WSchnöll — 47.70°N, 13.17°EWild Cow — 34.75°N, 106.25°WSupai — 34.20°N, 111.00°WCarbondale — 41.00°N, 88.00°WCarbondale — 40.00°N, 90.00°WKozlu — 41.45°N, 31.82°EHartford Limestone — 37.00°N, 96.00°WFlöz Zweibänke — 52.32°N, 8.01°EAngulatensandstein — 48.73°N, 9.10°EPetersburg — 38.10°N, 87.18°WWeber? — 38.48°N, 105.92°WCumberland — 45.67°N, 62.70°WStellarton — 45.67°N, 62.70°W

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The named rock units Asterophyllites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 91 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Asterophyllites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Asterophyllites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

475 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 91 sites for Asterophyllites, 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

86 references

Each of the 233 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. 74 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

3D model

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

No picture of Asterophyllites was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Asterophyllites 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 Asterophyllites, 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sternberg 1822