Arthraster dixoni
No picture of Arthraster dixoni 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 Arthraster dixoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArthrasterPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Asteroidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Arthraster
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthraster
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Arthraster
Time the record covers
At least 4.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya.
3 occurrences of Arthraster dixoni on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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- Late Cretaceous100%
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.
Arthraster dixoni and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Arthraster dixoni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Lophidiaster2 sites
- Manfredaster bulbiferus2 sites
- Metopaster parkinsoni2 sites
- Metopaster uncatus2 sites
- Valettaster ocellatus2 sites
- Aspidaster1 site
- Benthopectinidae1 site
- Bolivinitella eleyi1 site
- Caletaster romani1 site
- Calliderma smithiae1 site
- Cidaridae1 site
- Comptonia elegans1 site
- Crateraster1 site
- Crateraster quinqueloba1 site
- Gavelinella1 site
- Hadranderaster simplex1 site
- Manfredaster concinnus1 site
- Manfredaster senonensis1 site
- Mastaster villersensis1 site
- Metopaster hunteri1 site
- Metopaster schulzi1 site
- Nymphaster1 site
- Porosphaera1 site
- Pycinaster angustatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Arthraster dixoni, 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 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Arthraster dixoni 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 Arthraster dixoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Arthraster dixoni 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 itArthraster through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Forbes 1848