Holaster carinatus

Newsom, Charles · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HolasterPBDB
- 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 most 35 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Holaster carinatus on record, most of them in the Late 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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.
Holaster carinatus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Holaster carinatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Ammonoidea3 sites
- Inoceramus (Inoceramus) cuvierii3 sites
- Pecten3 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata2 sites
- Scaphites2 sites
- Scaphites obliquus2 sites
- Turrilites2 sites
- Turrilites costatus2 sites
- Acrolamna acuminata1 site
- Belemnitida1 site
- Caratomus affinis1 site
- Caratomus althi1 site
- Carneithyris carnea1 site
- Ceriopora1 site
- Cidaris1 site
- Cretoxyrhina mantelli1 site
- Cymatoceras deslongchampsianum1 site
- Cymatoceras elegans1 site
- Discoides1 site
- Emarginula1 site
- Epitheles robusta1 site
- Galerites castanea1 site
- Galerites elliptica1 site
- Galerites laevis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Holaster carinatus, 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 referencesEach of the 6 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
Media content1

Picture of Holaster carinatus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Newsom, Charles
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Holaster carinatus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itHolaster through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1853