Palasterina antiqua
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalasterinaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Asteroidea
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asteroidea
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Asteroidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 421.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
4 occurrences of Palasterina antiqua on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
4 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
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The named rock units Palasterina antiqua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Palasterina antiqua and its relatives
SilurianWhere Palasterina antiqua and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Furcaster leptosoma3 sites
- Loriolaster2 sites
- Rhopalocoma pyrotechnica2 sites
- Apiocystites1 site
- Aptilechinus1 site
- Arisaigaster1 site
- Bdellacoma vermiformis1 site
- Coccaster bulbiferus1 site
- Conchidium1 site
- Crepidosoma wenlocki1 site
- Echinocystites1 site
- Eutaxocrinus maccoyanus1 site
- Gissocrinus ludensis1 site
- Glansicystis1 site
- Hapalocrinus quinquepennis1 site
- Lapworthura miltoni1 site
- Lepidactis wenlocki1 site
- Lepidaster grayi1 site
- Lepidocentrus1 site
- Lepyriactis nudus1 site
- Mastigocrinus bravoniensis1 site
- Palaeodiscus1 site
- Pisocrinus sphericus1 site
- Placocystites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Palasterina antiqua, 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 4 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 Palasterina antiqua 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 Palasterina antiqua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palasterina antiqua 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 itPalasterina through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hisinger 1837)