Asterolampra

Asterolampra

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AsterolampraceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Bacillariophyceae
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Bacillariophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 290 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 77 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 77 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 61 of 77 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 77 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 77 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 9 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 9 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 9 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 9 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences23.04 Mya290 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

77 occurrences of Asterolampra on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

77 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.

Asterolampra and its relatives

Miocene

Where Asterolampra and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

131 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Asterolampra, 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 77 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 Asterolampra

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Asterolampra 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 itAsterolampraceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1844