Plesiastropecten hallovensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlesiastropectenPBDB
Diet
carnivore, detritivorePBDB, for Velatida
Life habit
epifaunal, solitary, depth=subthermoclinePBDB, for Velatida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Velatida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
Environment
outer shelf,oceanic,marinePBDB, for Velatida

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 182.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 180.4 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 3 occurrencesEarly Jurassic202–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199.5 Mya182.9 Mya201.9 Mya179.9 Mya

3 occurrences of Plesiastropecten hallovensis on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

3 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.

Plesiastropecten hallovensis and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Plesiastropecten hallovensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

20 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Plesiastropecten hallovensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 content0

No picture of Plesiastropecten hallovensis 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 Plesiastropecten hallovensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plesiastropecten hallovensis 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 itPlesiastropecten through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peyer 1944