Toxaster fittoni

No picture of Toxaster fittoni 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 Toxaster fittoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ToxasterPBDB
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 most 8.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 12 of 12 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous122–121 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–119 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences116–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences116–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121.9 Mya112.7 Mya

12 occurrences of Toxaster fittoni on record, most of them in the Early 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

12 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

Atherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 51.23°N, 0.58°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WSandgate — 51.23°N, 0.22°WSandgate — 50.98°N, 0.75°WFerruginous Sands — 50.60°N, 1.32°WFerruginous Sands — 50.63°N, 1.17°W

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

Toxaster fittoni and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Toxaster fittoni and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

259 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Toxaster fittoni, 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

2 references

Each of the 12 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 content0

No picture of Toxaster fittoni 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 Toxaster fittoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Toxaster fittoni 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 itToxaster through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Forbes 1856