Micraster leskei

Micraster leskei

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
MicrasterPBDB
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 15 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 85.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 16 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 16 of 16 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence90–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence90–89 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences88–88 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences87–87 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101 Mya85.2 Mya

16 occurrences of Micraster leskei 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

16 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

3 formations

Lewes Nodular Chalk — 50.70°N, 3.10°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 50.75°N, 2.97°WAbu Qada — 29.13°N, 33.28°ETeplice — 50.45°N, 14.05°E

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The named rock units Micraster leskei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Micraster leskei and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Micraster leskei and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

97 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Micraster leskei, 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

6 references

Each of the 16 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 Micraster leskei

Credit
Didier Descouens
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Micraster leskei was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itMicraster through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1855