Asterocalamites

No picture of Asterocalamites 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 Asterocalamites 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 136 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 8 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 5 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 8 occurrencesPermian416–411 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences411–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences370–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–359 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences359–354 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences354–349 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences349–344 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences344–339 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences339–333 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences333–328 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences328–323 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences277–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences272–266 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences266–261 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences410.62 Mya274.4 Mya416 Mya261 Mya

8 occurrences of Asterocalamites 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

8 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

Grès de Wiheries — 50.38°N, 3.75°ECheverie — 45.08°N, 64.19°WMaoshan — 41.00°N, 118.90°EHorton Bluff — 45.23°N, 64.00°WEvieux — 50.58°N, 5.75°E

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The named rock units Asterocalamites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Asterocalamites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Asterocalamites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

34 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Asterocalamites, 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 8 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 Asterocalamites 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 Asterocalamites 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 of Asterocalamites was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schimper 1879