Astromyelon
No picture of Astromyelon 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 Astromyelon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CalamitalesPBDB
- 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 330.3 Mya to 290.1 Mya.
8 occurrences of Astromyelon 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
8 occurrences- Carboniferous88%
- Permian13%
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
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The named rock units Astromyelon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Astromyelon and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Astromyelon and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
80 taxa- Botryopteris7 sites
- Sphenophyllum7 sites
- Amyelon radicans6 sites
- Cordaites6 sites
- Etapteris6 sites
- Heterangium6 sites
- Lepidocarpon6 sites
- Anachoropteris5 sites
- Arthropitys5 sites
- Diaphorodendron vasculare5 sites
- Lyginopteris oldhamia5 sites
- Myeloxylon5 sites
- Pachytesta5 sites
- Ankyropteris4 sites
- Bothrodendron4 sites
- Bowmanites4 sites
- Calamostachys4 sites
- Conostoma4 sites
- Lepidophylloides4 sites
- Lepidostrobus4 sites
- Medullosa anglica4 sites
- Microspermopteris4 sites
- Psalixochlaena cylindrica4 sites
- Sigillariopsis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Astromyelon, 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
2 references- Coal-ball floras of the Namurian-Westphalian of Europe7
- An Early Permian plant assemblage from the Taiyuan Formation of northern China with compression/impression and permineralized preservation1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Astromyelon 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 Astromyelon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astromyelon 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCalamitales through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Williamson 1883