Androstrobus

Androstrobus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 115 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 26 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 26 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 18 of 26 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 26 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous244–240 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences240–235 Mya — about 1 occurrence235–231 Mya — about 1 occurrence231–226 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences226–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–204 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences204–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–191 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences191–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–173 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences173–168 Mya — about 14 occurrences168–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–160 Mya — about 1 occurrence160–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences237 Mya121.4 Mya244 Mya111 Mya

26 occurrences of Androstrobus on record, most of them in the Middle 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

26 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

5 formations

Saltwick — 54.50°N, 0.75°WSaltwick — 54.40°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.37°N, 1.25°WAnfiteatro de Ticó — 48.51°S, 69.24°WMolteno — 30.80°S, 26.88°EMolteno — 31.50°S, 27.92°EKamenka Suite — 49.10°N, 37.30°ECloughton — 54.17°N, 0.25°W

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The named rock units Androstrobus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Androstrobus and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Androstrobus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

160 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Androstrobus, 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

9 references

Each of the 26 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

Picture of Androstrobus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Androstrobus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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.

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What may have been alongside itBeaniaceae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schimper 1870