Taeniaster

Taeniaster

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
ProtasteridaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ophiuroidea

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 459.7 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461 Mya to 399.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 14 of 17 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 17 occurrencesDevonian — about 3 of 17 occurrencesDevonian462–460 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–449 Mya — about 6 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 2 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 2 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 2 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences403–400 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459.7 Mya410.62 Mya462 Mya398 Mya

17 occurrences of Taeniaster 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

17 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

10 formations

Waynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.53°N, 84.09°WHunsrück Slate — 49.89°N, 7.47°EHunsrück Slate — 49.83°N, 7.37°EFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLiberty — 39.00°N, 84.00°WMartinsburg — 40.48°N, 76.53°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WBellevue — 39.00°N, 84.00°WCorryville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WMount Auburn — 39.00°N, 84.00°WPizarras Guindo — 38.76°N, 4.56°W

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

Taeniaster and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Taeniaster and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

510 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Taeniaster, 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

5 references

Each of the 17 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 content1

Picture of Taeniaster

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Taeniaster 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 itProtasteridae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Billings 1858