Astya nielseni
No picture of Astya nielseni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Astya nielseni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AstyaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Hydrozoa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hydrozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hydrozoa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hydrozoa
Time the record covers
At least 28 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
2 occurrences of Astya nielseni on record. 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous50%
- Eocene50%
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 Astya nielseni 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.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Anomocora exilis1 site
- Anthemiphyllia catinata1 site
- Caryophyllia denaria1 site
- Caryophyllia japonica1 site
- Corallium1 site
- Crispatotrochus tenisonwoodsi1 site
- Crypthelia vetusta1 site
- Cyathoceras kondoi1 site
- Deltocyathus1 site
- Desmophyllum coulsoni1 site
- Desmophyllum decuplum1 site
- Desmophyllum lirioides1 site
- Enallopsammia laddi1 site
- Fungiacyathus euaensis1 site
- Goniocorella eguchii1 site
- Javania duncani1 site
- Madrepora1 site
- Notocyathus1 site
- Parisis1 site
- Stenocyathus hoffmeisteri1 site
- Stenohelia boschmai1 site
- Stylaster1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Astya nielseni, 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
2 referencesEach of the 2 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
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No picture of Astya nielseni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Astya nielseni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astya nielseni 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 itAstya through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wells 1976