Sertulaster keslingi
No picture of Sertulaster keslingi 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 Sertulaster keslingi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SertulasterPBDB
- 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 most 7.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Sertulaster keslingi on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
- Verulam Formation · Simcoe Group1
- Bobcaygeon Formation · Simcoe Group1
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The named rock units Sertulaster keslingi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sertulaster keslingi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Sertulaster keslingi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Amecystis laevis1 site
- Cincinnaticrinus varibrachialus1 site
- Cleiocrinus lepidotus1 site
- Cleiocrinus regius1 site
- Cremacrinus guttenbergensis1 site
- Cremacrinus inaequalis1 site
- Cupulocrinus humilis1 site
- Hybocrinus tumidus1 site
- Hybocystites problematicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sertulaster keslingi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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
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No picture of Sertulaster keslingi 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 Sertulaster keslingi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sertulaster keslingi 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 itSertulaster through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blake and Koniecki 2019