Leymeriaster eluvialis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeymeriasterPBDB
- 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 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 Leymeriaster eluvialis 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.
Found in
4 formations
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The named rock units Leymeriaster eluvialis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Leymeriaster eluvialis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Leymeriaster eluvialis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Oolopygus6 sites
- Chomataster acules5 sites
- Dunnicrinus aequalis5 sites
- Gauthieria pseudoradiata5 sites
- Hemipneustes striatoradiatus5 sites
- Nucleopygus5 sites
- Ophiomusium granulosum5 sites
- Astropectinidae4 sites
- Goniasteridae4 sites
- Hemiaster4 sites
- Lophidiaster pygmaeus4 sites
- Placometra laticirra4 sites
- Trochalosoma4 sites
- Cardiaster granulosus3 sites
- Catopygus3 sites
- Hemiaster (Bolbaster) prunella3 sites
- Nucleopygus scrobiculatus3 sites
- Ophiura serrata3 sites
- Salenidia bonissenti3 sites
- Temnocidaris3 sites
- Trichaster ornatus3 sites
- Applinocrinus cretaceus2 sites
- Diplodetus2 sites
- Felderophiura vanderhami2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Leymeriaster eluvialis, 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
1 referenceEach 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
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No picture of Leymeriaster eluvialis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Leymeriaster eluvialis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leymeriaster eluvialis 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 itLeymeriaster through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. van der Ham 1995