Enallaster obliquatus

Enallaster obliquatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EnallasterPBDB
Diet
deposit feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Spatangoida
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Spatangoida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Spatangoida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Spatangoida

Time the record covers

At most 3.1 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 110.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly Cretaceous113–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113.7 Mya109.6 Mya

1 occurrence of Enallaster obliquatus on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

Glen Rose Limestone — 29.95°N, 98.76°W

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

Enallaster obliquatus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Enallaster obliquatus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Enallaster obliquatus, 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Enallaster obliquatus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Enallaster obliquatus 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 itEnallaster through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clark 1893