Asteroarchaediscus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArchaediscidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 318.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 339.9 Mya to 312.8 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 67 of 67 occurrencesCarboniferous340–340 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences338–337 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 1 occurrence329–328 Mya — about 1 occurrence328–327 Mya — about 1 occurrence327–326 Mya — about 1 occurrence326–325 Mya — about 1 occurrence325–324 Mya — about 1 occurrence324–324 Mya — about 1 occurrence324–323 Mya — about 7 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 8 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 8 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 8 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 8 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 5 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 4 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 4 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 3 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335.9 Mya318.6 Mya340.4 Mya312.3 Mya

67 occurrences of Asteroarchaediscus 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

67 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

9 formations

Amsden — 41.81°N, 107.30°WAmsden — 41.83°N, 107.24°WAmsden — 41.92°N, 107.34°WAmsden — 43.66°N, 109.60°WAmsden — 44.88°N, 107.35°WAmsden — 44.88°N, 107.39°WAmsden — 42.40°N, 110.32°WAmsden — 42.87°N, 110.79°WSiuransky — 54.30°N, 57.00°EAkavassky — 54.30°N, 57.00°EAskynbashsky — 54.30°N, 57.00°ETashastinsky — 54.30°N, 57.00°EArdengost — 42.93°N, 0.40°EBricklieve Limestone — 54.05°N, 8.37°WLucan — 53.62°N, 6.88°WSangalt — 39.37°N, 67.58°E

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The named rock units Asteroarchaediscus 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.

Asteroarchaediscus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Asteroarchaediscus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

175 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Asteroarchaediscus, 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

8 references

Each of the 67 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 Asteroarchaediscus 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 Asteroarchaediscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Asteroarchaediscus 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 itArchaediscidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.