Proraster dalli

Proraster dalli

Watkins, Bill · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
ProrasterPBDB
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 least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 11 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 11 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 11 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100.5 Mya72.2 Mya107.1 Mya65.2 Mya

11 occurrences of Proraster dalli 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

11 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

Anacacho Limestone — 29.44°N, 98.86°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.19°N, 100.30°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.50°N, 98.91°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.25°N, 99.91°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.42°N, 98.74°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.20°N, 100.14°WCorsicana Marl — 29.37°N, 98.78°WCorsicana Marl — 29.40°N, 98.63°WPerson — 29.40°N, 98.47°W

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The named rock units Proraster dalli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Proraster dalli and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Proraster dalli and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

92 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Proraster dalli, 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

3 references

Each of the 11 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Proraster dalli

Source
GBIF
Credit
Watkins, Bill
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Proraster dalli 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 itProraster through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clark 1891)