Schizaster (Ova)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SchizasterPBDB
- 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 25 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 774 ka.
4 occurrences of Schizaster (Ova) on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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- Oligocene25%
- Miocene50%
- Pleistocene25%
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 Schizaster (Ova) 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.
Schizaster (Ova) and its relatives
MioceneWhere Schizaster (Ova) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
354 taxa- Bolivina2 sites
- Brissopsis2 sites
- Clypeaster2 sites
- Echinocyamus2 sites
- Gyroidina2 sites
- Hemiaster (Holanthus)2 sites
- Hemipatagus2 sites
- Lenticulina2 sites
- Melonis2 sites
- Metalia2 sites
- Opissaster2 sites
- Rhodophyta2 sites
- Thalassinoides2 sites
- ? Calamoideae indet.1 site
- Abadzekhia1 site
- Abadzekhia tarletskovi1 site
- Achilleodinium1 site
- Achomosphaera1 site
- Actinodaphne1 site
- Aeoliscus1 site
- Aeoliscus heinrichi1 site
- Albaidaplax ispalensis1 site
- Ammonia1 site
- Amusium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Schizaster (Ova), 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- Palaeoecology and taphonomy of spatangoid-dominated echinoid assemblages: A case study from the Early-Middle Miocene of Sardinia, Italy2
- Scavengers and opportunists at work on whale carcasses: decapods, echinoids and fishes1
- The Rauenberg fossil Lagerstätte (Baden-Württemberg, Germany): A window into early Oligocene marine and coastal ecosystems of Central Europe1
Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Schizaster (Ova) 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 Schizaster (Ova), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Schizaster (Ova) 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSchizaster through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1825)