Asterophyllites

Searched as Asterophyllites grandis. The Paleobiology Database treats Asterophyllites as the accepted name.

Asterophyllites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CalamitaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 316.9 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 26 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 25 of 26 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 26 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 26 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 1 occurrence354–350 Mya — about 1 occurrence350–346 Mya — about 1 occurrence346–342 Mya — about 1 occurrence342–339 Mya — about 1 occurrence339–335 Mya — about 1 occurrence335–331 Mya — about 1 occurrence331–328 Mya — about 1 occurrence328–324 Mya — about 1 occurrence324–320 Mya — about 1 occurrence320–317 Mya — about 3 occurrences317–313 Mya — about 2 occurrences313–309 Mya — about 1 occurrence309–305 Mya — about 1 occurrence305–302 Mya — about 1 occurrence302–298 Mya — about 1 occurrence298–294 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences291–287 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences287–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283–279 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences276–272 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences272–268 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences265–261 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences261–257 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences257–253 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences316.9 Mya298.9 Mya361 Mya250 Mya

26 occurrences of Asterophyllites 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

26 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

Pottsville — 33.82°N, 87.42°WPottsville — 33.00°N, 87.00°WCrab Orchard Mountains — 34.00°N, 85.00°WSupai — 34.20°N, 111.00°WCharleston Sandstone — 39.00°N, 87.00°WMospyne — 48.24°N, 39.30°E

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The named rock units Asterophyllites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Asterophyllites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Asterophyllites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

475 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 91 sites for Asterophyllites, 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

10 references

Each of the 26 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 content2

Picture of Asterophyllites

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1828