Giraliaster bellissae

No picture of Giraliaster bellissae 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 Giraliaster bellissae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GiraliasterPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Holasteroida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Holasteroida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Holasteroida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Holasteroida

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 52 Mya to 25.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 21.7 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52 Mya25.2 Mya56.7 Mya21 Mya

2 occurrences of Giraliaster bellissae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

Red Bluff Tuff — 43.96°S, 176.58°WOtekaike Limestone — 45.00°S, 170.56°E

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

Giraliaster bellissae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Giraliaster bellissae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Giraliaster bellissae, 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

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Giraliaster bellissae 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 Giraliaster bellissae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Giraliaster bellissae 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 itGiraliaster through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Foster and Philip 1978