Codaster acutus

Codaster acutus

G. Hambach · 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
CodasterPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Blastoidea
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Blastoidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Blastoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Blastoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At most 5.6 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 335.9 Mya and 330.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous336–336 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336–336 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335–335 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335–335 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335–335 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences333–333 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences333–333 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences333–333 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences332–332 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences332–332 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences332–332 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences332–332 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences331–331 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences331–331 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences331–331 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336.4 Mya329.8 Mya

1 occurrence of Codaster acutus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

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

Alston — 54.07°N, 2.28°W

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The named rock units Codaster acutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Codaster acutus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Codaster acutus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

9 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Codaster acutus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 reference

Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Codaster acutus

Source
GBIF
Credit
G. Hambach
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Codaster acutus 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.

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What may have been alongside itCodaster through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. M'Coy 1849