Archegonaster pentagonus
No picture of Archegonaster pentagonus 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 Archegonaster pentagonus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchegonasterPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Somasteroidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Somasteroidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Somasteroidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 6.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.4 Mya and 463.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Archegonaster pentagonus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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 Archegonaster pentagonus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Archegonaster pentagonus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Archegonaster pentagonus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
160 taxa- ? Dictyonema dubium1 site
- ? Ptilograptus suavis1 site
- Acanthograptus1 site
- Anatiferocystites barrandei1 site
- Anatifopsis1 site
- Archaeoconularia insignis1 site
- Archaeoconularia primula1 site
- Archaeocystites medusa1 site
- Archegocystis desideratus1 site
- Archeolimulus hanusi1 site
- Areia (Areiaspis) barrandei1 site
- Asaphellus1 site
- Asteroidea indet.1 site
- Babinka prima1 site
- Bactroceras sandbergeri1 site
- Bactrotheca teres1 site
- Balanocystites lagenula1 site
- Barrandicella ovata1 site
- Barrandicellopsis elevata1 site
- Bathmoceras complexum1 site
- Bathmoceras praeposterum1 site
- Bathycheilus perplexus1 site
- Bohemilla praecedens1 site
- Bohemilla stupenda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Archegonaster pentagonus, 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 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
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No picture of Archegonaster pentagonus 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 Archegonaster pentagonus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Archegonaster pentagonus 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 itArchegonaster through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spencer 1951