Asterophyllites
Searched as Schlotheimia angulata densicostata. 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 most 1.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 199.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Asterophyllites on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
1 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
1 formation
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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.
Asterophyllites and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Asterophyllites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
475 taxa- Annularia64 sites
- Neuropteris63 sites
- Pecopteris62 sites
- Sphenopteris61 sites
- Pecopteris (Alethopteris)51 sites
- Sphenophyllum50 sites
- Calamites43 sites
- Odontopteris38 sites
- Cordaites36 sites
- Taeniopteris26 sites
- Callipteris22 sites
- Callipteris conferta22 sites
- Lebachia22 sites
- Callipteridium21 sites
- Lebachia piniformis20 sites
- Lepidodendron20 sites
- Sigillaria20 sites
- Imparipteris heterophylla19 sites
- Mariopteris19 sites
- Ernestiodendron filiciforme17 sites
- Sphenophyllum emarginatum17 sites
- Cyclopteris16 sites
- Dicksonites16 sites
- Linopteris16 sites
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
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 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCalamitaceae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sternberg 1822