Asperophyllum
No picture of Asperophyllum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Asperophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CystiphyllidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Asperophyllum on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
6 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
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The named rock units Asperophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Asperophyllum and its relatives
SilurianWhere Asperophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Mesosolenia5 sites
- Parastriatopora5 sites
- Alispira4 sites
- Anabaria4 sites
- Armenoceras4 sites
- Beyrichia4 sites
- Bustrowicrinus bilobatus4 sites
- Catazone cingulata4 sites
- Cymatiosphaera4 sites
- Dalejina4 sites
- Eohowellella4 sites
- Fardenia4 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus4 sites
- Hindeodella confluens4 sites
- Homotrypa4 sites
- Hyattidina4 sites
- Labechia4 sites
- Lenatoechia4 sites
- Mesosapporipora sp.4 sites
- Miculiella4 sites
- Multisolenia tortuosa4 sites
- Paralleloporo dragunovi4 sites
- Phaulactis4 sites
- Philoxene alacer4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Asperophyllum, 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- Oporniih razrez reki Moiero silura Sibirskoi platformih -The Silurian composit section of the Moiero River (Sibirian platform)4
- Ordovik i silur Yuzhnogo Verkhoyanya (biostratigrafiya i paleontologiya) [The Ordovician and Silurian of the southern Verkhoyansk Range (biostratigraphy and paleontology)]2
Each of the 6 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Asperophyllum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Asperophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Asperophyllum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCystiphyllidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spasskiy 1964