Asteriidae

The Asteriidae are a diverse family of Asteroidea in the order Forcipulatida. It is one of three families in the order Forcipulatida.

Asteriidae

Matt Knoth · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ForcipulatidaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Forcipulatida
Life habit
low-level epifaunal, solitaryPBDB, for Forcipulatida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Forcipulatida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Forcipulatida

Time the record covers

At least 199 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 28 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 28 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 28 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 28 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 28 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 28 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 28 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 28 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 3 occurrences171–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 3 occurrences89–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–62 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences62–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–48 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–6.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences199.5 Mya129 ka205 Mya0 Mya

28 occurrences of Asteriidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

28 occurrences

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

12 formations

La Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.67°WLa Meseta — 64.26°S, 56.67°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.60°WCraie d'Antifer — 49.68°N, 0.17°ECraie d'Antifer — 49.75°N, 0.37°ECraie du Cap Fagnet — 48.80°N, 0.00°ECraie du Cap Fagnet — 49.68°N, 0.17°ETalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WGulpen — 50.73°N, 5.67°EMarnes de Jamoigne — 49.72°N, 5.22°EEntre Rios — 33.72°S, 59.25°WWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°ECraie de Rouen — 48.80°N, 0.00°ECraie d'Eletot — 49.77°N, 0.42°EChico — 39.72°N, 121.83°WSan Pablo — 38.02°N, 122.13°W

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The named rock units Asteriidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Asteriidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Asteriidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

445 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Asteriidae, 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

16 references

Each of the 28 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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

Media content1

Picture of Asteriidae

Credit
Matt Knoth
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Asteriidae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itForcipulatida through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1840