Asteropollis transitorius
No picture of Asteropollis transitorius 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 Asteropollis transitorius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AsteropollisPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 119.57 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Asteropollis transitorius on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
- Huitrin or Rayoso Formation · Bajada del Agrio Group1
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The named rock units Asteropollis transitorius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Asteropollis transitorius and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Asteropollis transitorius and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Afropollis jardinus1 site
- Afropollis operculatus1 site
- Afropollis zonatus1 site
- Appendicisporites tricornitatus1 site
- Asteropollis asteroides1 site
- Balmeiopsis limbatus1 site
- Classopollis classoides1 site
- Clavatipollenites hughesii1 site
- Cyclusphaera psilata1 site
- Equisetosporites albertensis1 site
- Gnetaceaepollenites1 site
- Gnetaceaepollenites barghoornii1 site
- Klukisporites foveolatus1 site
- Leptolepidites irregularis1 site
- Leptolepidites macroverrucosus1 site
- Liliacidites1 site
- Membranosphaera1 site
- Pilosisporites trichopapillosus1 site
- Retimonocolpites1 site
- Singhia montanaensis1 site
- Zlivisporis reticulatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Asteropollis transitorius, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Asteropollis transitorius 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 Asteropollis transitorius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Asteropollis transitorius 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 itAsteropollis through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vallati 2006