Encrinaster

Encrinaster

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EncrinasteridaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ophiuroidea

Time the record covers

At least 57 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 448.8 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 18 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 18 occurrencesDevonian — about 17 of 18 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 18 occurrences451–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–444 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences423–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences410–407 Mya — about 2 occurrences407–404 Mya — about 2 occurrences404–401 Mya — about 2 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 1 occurrence398–394 Mya — about 1 occurrence394–391 Mya — about 2 occurrences391–388 Mya — about 3 occurrences388–385 Mya — about 2 occurrences385–382 Mya — about 1 occurrence382–379 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences379–376 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences376–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–370 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences370–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445.2 Mya387.95 Mya451 Mya357 Mya

18 occurrences of Encrinaster on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

18 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

Ponta Grossa — 26.07°S, 52.58°WPonta Grossa — 25.08°S, 50.15°WPonta Grossa — 24.50°S, 50.40°WPonta Grossa — 25.43°S, 50.40°WHunsrück Slate — 49.83°N, 7.37°EGydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°ECordobes — 33.00°S, 55.00°WTra-Tra — 33.00°S, 20.00°EVoorstehoek — 33.00°S, 20.00°EWaboomberg — 33.00°S, 20.00°EPonta Grossa Shale — 7.00°S, 38.00°WSouth Threave — 55.29°N, 4.76°WPanther Mountain — 42.70°N, 74.89°W

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The named rock units Encrinaster has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Encrinaster and its relatives

Devonian

Where Encrinaster and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

354 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Encrinaster, 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

7 references

Each of the 18 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 Encrinaster

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Encrinaster 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 itEncrinasteridae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haekel 1866