Asterosphaera

No picture of Asterosphaera was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Asterosphaera 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. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhizopodaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 118 million years on record.

The record covers at least 372.15 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 3 of 7 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 7 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrences385–380 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences380–376 Mya — about 1 occurrence376–371 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences371–367 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences367–362 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences362–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences344–340 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences340–335 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences335–331 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences331–326 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences326–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences258–254 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences254–249 Mya — about 2 occurrences372.15 Mya254.14 Mya385 Mya249 Mya

7 occurrences of Asterosphaera 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

7 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

2 formations

Khauzieram — 39.37°N, 67.58°EToc Tat — 22.23°N, 106.18°E

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The named rock units Asterosphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Asterosphaera and its relatives

Devonian

Where Asterosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

40 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Asterosphaera, 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

4 references

Each of the 7 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 Asterosphaera was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Asterosphaera 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.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Asterosphaera 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 itRhizopoda through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reitlinger 1957