Asphaltina

No picture of Asphaltina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Asphaltina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlantaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 342.9 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 351.9 Mya to 307 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 11 of 11 occurrencesCarboniferous353–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences350–348 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences347–345 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences345–343 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences342–340 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences325–323 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 1 occurrence322–320 Mya — about 1 occurrence320–319 Mya — about 1 occurrence319–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences342.9 Mya323.4 Mya352.8 Mya306.1 Mya

11 occurrences of Asphaltina 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

11 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

Amsden — 41.81°N, 107.30°WHunts Bay Oolite — 51.55°N, 4.20°WPitkin — 35.93°N, 94.02°WPitkin — 35.80°N, 92.53°WValdeteja — 43.35°N, 4.77°W

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The named rock units Asphaltina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Asphaltina and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Asphaltina and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

76 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Asphaltina, 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

5 references

Each of the 11 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

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No picture of Asphaltina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Asphaltina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPlantae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mamet 1972