Atherstonia australis

Atherstonia australis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AtherstoniaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes

Time the record covers

At most 1.2 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 251.902 Mya and 250.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Permian — about 0 of 1 occurrenceEarly Triassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly Triassic252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252.4 Mya250.3 Mya

1 occurrence of Atherstonia australis on record, most of them in the Early 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

1 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

1 formation

Hawkesbury — 31.87°S, 152.69°E

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The named rock units Atherstonia australis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Atherstonia australis and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Atherstonia australis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Atherstonia australis, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Atherstonia australis

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Atherstonia australis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodward 1902