Disaster

Disaster

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DisasteridaePBDB
Diet
grazer, deposit feederPBDB, for Echinoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Echinoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Echinoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 6 of 26 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 15 of 26 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 26 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous166–165 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 3 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 3 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 3 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 3 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 1 occurrence135–134 Mya — about 1 occurrence134–133 Mya — about 1 occurrence133–132 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences161.5 Mya137.05 Mya166 Mya131.9 Mya

26 occurrences of Disaster on record, most of them in the Late 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

26 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

6 formations

Marnes de Latrecey — 47.98°N, 4.85°EOxford Clay — 51.74°N, 1.41°WOxford Clay — 51.86°N, 0.98°WL'Ammonitico Rosso Supérieur — 35.68°N, 0.92°WLes Marno-Calcaires Supérieurs — 35.68°N, 0.92°WTheoi Marls — 46.40°N, 0.06°WOrnatenton — 52.28°N, 8.76°E

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The named rock units Disaster has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Disaster and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Disaster and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

150 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Disaster, 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

9 references

Each of the 26 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 content2

Picture of Disaster

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itDisasteridae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.