Axolasma
No picture of Axolasma 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 Axolasma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StreptelasmatinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Axolasma on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
6 occurrences- Silurian100%
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 Axolasma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Axolasma and its relatives
SilurianWhere Axolasma and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Entelophyllum3 sites
- Zygospiraella duboisi3 sites
- Calostylis2 sites
- Clathrodictyon kudriavzevi2 sites
- Costaegera2 sites
- Crassilasma2 sites
- Cryptothyrella lacrima2 sites
- Helicelasma whittardi2 sites
- Helopora2 sites
- Moyerella stellata2 sites
- Nematopora2 sites
- Pentamerus (Pentamerus) oblongus2 sites
- Phaenopora2 sites
- Septatrypa2 sites
- Sibiritia2 sites
- Stricklandia lens2 sites
- Tungussophyllum2 sites
- Acanthocyclus1 site
- Acernaspis khatangensis1 site
- Acernaspis nanus1 site
- Asthenophyllum1 site
- Borealis borealis schmidti1 site
- Borealis nana1 site
- Brachyelasma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Axolasma, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Axolasma 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 Axolasma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Axolasma 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itStreptelasmatinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ivanovskiy 1963