Astrocentrus pulcher
No picture of Astrocentrus pulcher 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 Astrocentrus pulcher, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AstrocentrusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Radiolaria
Time the record covers
At least 6.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 233.6 Mya.
8 occurrences of Astrocentrus pulcher on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
8 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Astrocentrus pulcher 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.
Astrocentrus pulcher and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Astrocentrus pulcher and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
159 taxa- Triassocampe7 sites
- Cenosphaera6 sites
- Entactinosphaera6 sites
- Follicucullus6 sites
- Paroertlispongus6 sites
- Paroertlispongus multispinosus6 sites
- Striatotriassocampe nodosoannulata6 sites
- Tiborella florida6 sites
- Triassocampe myterocorys6 sites
- Triassocampe relica6 sites
- Eptingium manfredi5 sites
- Hindeosphaera spinulosa5 sites
- Nassellaria5 sites
- Paurinella curvata5 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera5 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera coccostyla5 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera japonica5 sites
- Triassocampe scalaris5 sites
- Annulotriassocampe campanilis4 sites
- Archaeospongoprunum liui4 sites
- Neopaurinella kozuri4 sites
- Paurinella aequispinosa4 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera compacta4 sites
- Spongostylus tricostatus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Astrocentrus pulcher, 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- Middle Triassic radiolarian fauna from southwest Yunnan, China3
- Radiolarian evolution during the Permian and Triassic transition in South and Southwest China3
- Triassic radiolarian assemblages in the Rubik area, and Cukali zone, Albania1
- Beiträge zur Erforschung der mesozoischen Radiolarien, Teil III: Die Oberfamilien Actinommacea Haeckel 1862 emend., Artiscacea Haeckel 1882, Multiarcusellacea nov. der Spumellaria und triassische Nassellaria [Contributions to the Mesozoic Radiolaria, part III: Superfamilies Actinommacea Haeckel 1862 emend., Artiscacea Haeckel 1882, Multiarcusellacea nov. of Spumellaria and Triassic Nassellaria]1
Each of the 8 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 content0
No picture of Astrocentrus pulcher 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 Astrocentrus pulcher, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astrocentrus pulcher 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 itAstrocentrus through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kozur and Mostler 1979