Astrodapsis spatiosus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AstrodapsisPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Clypeasteroida
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
8 occurrences of Astrodapsis spatiosus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
8 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Astrodapsis spatiosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Astrodapsis spatiosus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Astrodapsis spatiosus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Balanus gregarius4 sites
- Lyropecten terminus4 sites
- Ostrea (Ostrea) atwoodii4 sites
- Balanus3 sites
- Dallocardia quadragenarium3 sites
- Forreria belcheri3 sites
- Macoma nasuta3 sites
- Megasurcula3 sites
- Astrodapsis fernandoensis2 sites
- Astrodapsis whitneyi2 sites
- Caesia californiana2 sites
- Calyptraea2 sites
- Coanicardita californica2 sites
- Dendraster2 sites
- Lirobittium casmaliense2 sites
- Mactromeris hemphillii2 sites
- Pusio2 sites
- Pusio humerosus2 sites
- Siliqua alta2 sites
- ? Protothaca cf. laciniata hannibali1 site
- Acanthina1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Anadara trilineata canalis1 site
- Anomia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Astrodapsis spatiosus, 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
3 references- Pancho Rico Formation, Salinas Valley5
- Stratigraphy, paleontology, and geology of the Central Santa Cruz Mountains, California Coast Ranges2
- The West American Cenozoic Echinoidea1
Each of the 8 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 Astrodapsis spatiosus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Astrodapsis spatiosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astrodapsis spatiosus 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 itAstrodapsis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kew 1920)