06974 - Beautiful 2.56 Inch Asterophyllites equisetiformis Carboniferous Plant
06974 - Beautiful 2.56 Inch Asterophyllites equisetiformis Carboniferous Plant 06974 - Beautiful 2.56 Inch Asterophyllites equisetiformis Carboniferous Plant 06974 - Beautiful 2.56 Inch Asterophyllites equisetiformis Carboniferous Plant 06974 - Beautiful 2.56 Inch Asterophyllites equisetiformis Carboniferous Plant

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Species
† Asterophyllites, Brongniart (1828)
Age
Carboniferous, Westphalian - Middle Pennsylvanian (308 million years)
Location
Upper Silesia, Poland
Formation
Silesia Carboniferous Outcrops
Size
64.9 mm   •    in
Weight
70 g   •    oz
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Description

Asterophyllites, Brongniart 1828
Calamitaceae - Calamitaceae

    
PaleoDB taxon number: 125726
Full reference: A. T. Brongniart. 1828. Prodrome d'une histoire des végétaux fossiles.
Parent taxon: Calamitaceae according to D. L. Dilcher et al. 2005
Sister taxa: Calamites, Calamostachys, Neocalamites
Subtaxa: Asterophyllites charaeformis

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Environments: (25 collections), terrestrial (15), deltaic (3), mire/swamp (2), lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal (2), crevasse splay (1), "floodplain" (1), estuary/bay (1), fluvial (1), lacustrine deltaic (1), lagoonal (1), marginal marine (1), paralic (1), fine channel fill (1), fluvial-deltaic (1)
Age range: 318.1 to 265.0 Ma

Distribution:
• Rotliegendes of United States (1: New Mexico collection)

• Permian of China (4), the Czech Republic (2), France (4), Germany (14), Italy (1), North Korea (2), Portugal (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Arizona, West Virginia), Venezuela (1)

• Virgilian of United States (1: New Mexico)

• Desmoinesian of United States (1: Missouri)

• Atokan of United States (1: Indiana)

• Pennsylvanian of Portugal (2), United States (13: Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, New Mexico)

• Westphalian of Canada (2: Nova Scotia), United States (2: Alabama, Illinois)

• Carboniferous to Permian of Morocco (1)

• Carboniferous of Canada (7: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia), Germany (2), Portugal (1), Spain (1), Turkey (2), United States (29: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, West Virginia)

• Mississippian of Canada (1: New Brunswick), United States (3: Illinois, Utah, West Virginia)

Source: Asterophyllites: Fossilworks - Paleobiology Database

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