Crateraster

Crateraster

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GoniasteridaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Goniasteridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Goniasteridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Goniasteridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Goniasteridae

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 5 of 51 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 41 of 51 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 51 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 51 occurrencesEocene107–105 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 3 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 3 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 2 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 3 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 3 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences100.5 Mya56 Mya107 Mya47 Mya

51 occurrences of Crateraster on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

51 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

10 formations

Gulpen — 50.73°N, 5.67°EGulpen — 50.75°N, 5.67°EMarnes de Foncouverte — 43.15°N, 2.50°EMarnes de Foncouverte — 43.15°N, 2.57°EMarnes de Foncouverte — 43.17°N, 2.70°EPawpaw — 32.84°N, 97.29°WPawpaw — 32.70°N, 97.30°WPawpaw — 32.63°N, 97.40°WHolywell Nodular Chalk — 51.25°N, 0.15°WWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°EWeno — 32.73°N, 97.32°WSables de Montormel — 48.97°N, 0.05°WCraie de Meudon — 48.82°N, 2.23°EDel Rio — 31.55°N, 97.15°WJandaíra — 5.33°S, 37.34°W

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The named rock units Crateraster has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Crateraster and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

512 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Crateraster, 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

12 references

Each of the 51 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 Crateraster

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Crateraster 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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spencer 1913