Coelastarte

Coelastarte

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AstartinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 145.06 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 50 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 9 of 50 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 26 of 50 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 15 of 50 occurrencesLate Jurassic203–201 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences195–193 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences193–191 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences191–189 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences187–185 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 2 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences181–179 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences177–175 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences175–173 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences173–171 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences171–169 Mya — about 5 occurrences169–167 Mya — about 8 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 5 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 3 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 3 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–156 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 1 occurrence152–150 Mya — about 3 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 3 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 3 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 1 occurrence199.5 Mya149.2 Mya203 Mya144 Mya

50 occurrences of Coelastarte on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

50 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

22 formations

Twin Creek Limestone — 42.17°N, 110.83°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.51°N, 111.30°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.76°N, 111.21°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.51°N, 110.51°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.33°N, 110.50°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.94°N, 110.86°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.42°N, 110.80°WCarmel — 37.59°N, 113.06°WCarmel — 37.27°N, 113.78°WCarmel — 39.12°N, 110.86°WCarmel — 38.85°N, 110.90°WCarmel — 37.22°N, 112.68°WCarmel — 37.38°N, 112.85°WOzirovo — 42.77°N, 24.71°EOzirovo — 43.25°N, 23.41°EChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EPassage Beds — 53.97°N, 1.08°WSobral — 39.10°N, 9.27°WInferior Oolite — 50.80°N, 2.75°WCalcaire de Caen — 48.97°N, 0.13°WNiranohama — 38.67°N, 141.43°ENakanosawa — 37.83°N, 140.92°ERobertson — 44.10°N, 119.50°WKorallenoolith — 52.13°N, 10.02°EGadhada — 23.50°N, 70.50°EHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°ESawtooth — 47.72°N, 112.72°WSan Cayetano — 22.67°N, 83.77°WDuvalia Marl — 22.98°S, 44.40°EArapien Shale — 39.79°N, 111.70°WMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°ETolo Channel — 22.45°N, 114.28°EArousiah — 30.72°N, 33.36°EKehalia — 30.71°N, 33.50°E

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The named rock units Coelastarte has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Coelastarte and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Coelastarte and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

595 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Coelastarte, 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

25 references

Each of the 50 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. 13 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 Coelastarte

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itAstartinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Boehm 1893)