Asteropyge

Asteropyge is an extinct genus of trilobites. It lived from the end of the Lower Devonian into the Middle Devonian, in what are today France, Germany and Iran.

Asteropyge

Amir Ali Iranshahi 3 · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AsteropyginaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Acastidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Devonian — about 30 of 30 occurrencesDevonian414–413 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 2 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 2 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 2 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 2 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 2 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 2 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 2 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 2 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 2 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 3 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 3 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences410.62 Mya383.4 Mya413.6 Mya381.7 Mya

30 occurrences of Asteropyge on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

30 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

21 formations

Bolast — 48.40°N, 4.48°WVerveur — 48.40°N, 4.48°WIhandar — 30.84°N, 4.92°WHeisdorf — 50.34°N, 6.76°ELauch — 50.34°N, 6.76°EAhrdorf — 50.22°N, 6.70°EKalkgrauwacke — 50.82°N, 8.77°EPrioldy — 48.40°N, 4.48°WLe Fret — 48.40°N, 4.48°WPena Negra — 41.13°N, 1.07°WMolino — 41.13°N, 1.07°WMonforte — 41.13°N, 1.07°WWallen Slate — 51.40°N, 8.58°EAmerboh — 31.37°N, 4.05°WRosenum Slate — 50.43°N, 4.47°WJemelle — 50.16°N, 5.26°EIhmert — 51.38°N, 7.68°EHobracke — 51.23°N, 7.82°ESelscheid — 51.03°N, 7.55°EBrakerkopf — 51.28°N, 7.68°EHunsrück Slate — 49.83°N, 7.37°E

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The named rock units Asteropyge has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Asteropyge and its relatives

Devonian

Where Asteropyge and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

296 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Asteropyge, 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

13 references

Each of the 30 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Asteropyge

Credit
Amir Ali Iranshahi 3
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Asteropyge 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAsteropyginae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hawle and Corda 1847