Epiaster distinctus

No picture of Epiaster distinctus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Epiaster distinctus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EpiasterPBDB
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 least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 5 of 8 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 8 occurrencesLate Cretaceous122–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113.2 Mya93.9 Mya122 Mya89.2 Mya

8 occurrences of Epiaster distinctus on record, most of them in the Early 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

8 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

3 formations

Grès verts helvétiques — 46.09°N, 6.76°EGrizzle — 50.80°N, 0.18°ENeuburger Weiß — 48.73°N, 11.18°E

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The named rock units Epiaster distinctus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Epiaster distinctus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Epiaster distinctus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

81 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Epiaster distinctus, 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

5 references

Each of the 8 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 content0

No picture of Epiaster distinctus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Epiaster distinctus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Epiaster distinctus 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.

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What may have been alongside itEpiaster through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz and Desor 1847)