Thysanophyllum astraeiforme
No picture of Thysanophyllum astraeiforme 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 Thysanophyllum astraeiforme, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThysanophyllumPBDB
- 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 least 5.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 335.4 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 342.9 Mya to 323.4 Mya.
3 occurrences of Thysanophyllum astraeiforme 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
3 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
2 formations
- Mount Head Formation · Rundle Group2
- Kogruk Formation · Lisburne Group1
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The named rock units Thysanophyllum astraeiforme has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Thysanophyllum astraeiforme and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Thysanophyllum astraeiforme and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
2 taxa- Ekvasophyllum cascadense1 site
- Lithostrotionella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Thysanophyllum astraeiforme, 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 references- Stratigraphy and facies relationships of the upper Mississippian Mount Head Formation, Rocky Mountains and foothills, southwestern Alberta2
- Carbonate Facies and the Lithostrotionid Corals of the Mississippian Kogruk Formation, DeLong Mountains, Northwestern Alaska1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Thysanophyllum astraeiforme 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 Thysanophyllum astraeiforme, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Thysanophyllum astraeiforme 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.
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What may have been alongside itThysanophyllum through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Warren 1927)