Furcaster decheni

Furcaster decheni

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FurcasterPBDB
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 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 399.5 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 2 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–365 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences365–363 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences363–361 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399.5 Mya365.2 Mya412 Mya358 Mya

2 occurrences of Furcaster decheni 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

2 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

2 formations

Hunsrück Slate — 49.83°N, 7.37°EWocklum — 51.34°N, 7.02°E

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

Furcaster decheni and its relatives

Devonian

Where Furcaster decheni and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

165 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Furcaster decheni, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 Furcaster decheni

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iDigBio
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itFurcaster through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stürtz 1886)