Inyoaster bradleyi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- InyoasterPBDB
- 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 most 8.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Inyoaster bradleyi on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
1 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Inyoaster bradleyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Inyoaster bradleyi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Inyoaster bradleyi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Inyoaster bradleyi, and this reads all of them.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Inyoaster bradleyi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Inyoaster bradleyi 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 itInyoaster through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Phleger 1936