Cheiropterasteridae

Vandelooaster Jell, 1997, a relative of Cheiropterasteridae — not Cheiropterasteridae itself

Not Cheiropterasteridae. This is Vandelooaster Jell, 1997, a relative — both are Cheiropterasteridae.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
LysophiurinaPBDB
Diet
detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ophiuroidea

Time the record covers

At least 82 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 5 occurrencesDevonian — about 3 of 5 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferous422–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–415 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences415–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences412–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–405 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences405–402 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences402–398 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences398–395 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences392–388 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences388–385 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences348–345 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences345–341 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences341–338 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences328–325 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences325–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413.02 Mya330.3 Mya422 Mya321 Mya

5 occurrences of Cheiropterasteridae on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

5 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

4 formations

Voorstehoek — 33.36°S, 19.51°EGydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°ELochkov — 49.98°N, 14.18°EBig Clifty — 38.24°N, 86.49°W

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The named rock units Cheiropterasteridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cheiropterasteridae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Cheiropterasteridae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

155 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cheiropterasteridae, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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

Media content1

Picture of Vandelooaster Jell, 1997

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cheiropterasteridae 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 itLysophiurina through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spencer 1934