Pseudoffaster
No picture of Pseudoffaster was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pseudoffaster, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HolasteridaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Holasteroida
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Holasteroida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Holasteroida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Holasteroida
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Pseudoffaster 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
3 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pseudoffaster has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pseudoffaster and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pseudoffaster and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Coraster2 sites
- Stegaster2 sites
- Austinocrinus rothpletzi1 site
- Baculites1 site
- Bostrychoceras polyplocum1 site
- Cardiaster1 site
- Cardiidae1 site
- Cataceramus balticus1 site
- Conulus1 site
- Cremnoceramus1 site
- Cuspidaria1 site
- Cyclaster1 site
- Cyclaster galei1 site
- Desmophyllites larteti1 site
- Dhondtichlamys1 site
- Didymoceras binodosum1 site
- Didymoceras donezianum1 site
- Echinocorys1 site
- Echinocorys scutata1 site
- Endocostea regularis1 site
- Galerites1 site
- Ganbirretia1 site
- Gaudryceras1 site
- Glyptoxoceras retrorsum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pseudoffaster, 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- Late Campanian echinoids and crinoids from the Gschliefgraben (Ultrahelvetic, Austria)1
- Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary echinoids from northern Spain: implications for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event1
- All Change at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary? Echinoids from the Maastrichtian and Danian of the Mangyshlak Peninsula, Kazakhstan1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pseudoffaster was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pseudoffaster, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itHolasteridae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.