Velatida

The Velatida are an order of sea stars containing about 200 species in five families. These sea stars normally have thick bodies with large discs.

Velatida

Peter Southwood · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
ChevronidaPBDB
Diet
carnivore, detritivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunal, solitary, depth=subthermoclinePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
Environment
outer shelf,oceanic,marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 127 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 7 of 14 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 14 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 14 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 14 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences204–199 Mya — about 2 occurrences199–195 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences195–190 Mya — about 1 occurrence190–185 Mya — about 2 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 1 occurrence181–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–167 Mya — about 2 occurrences167–162 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences162–157 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences157–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences87–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences199.5 Mya72.2 Mya204 Mya63 Mya

14 occurrences of Velatida on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

14 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

5 formations

Unterer Hauptraugenstein — 47.40°N, 7.68°ECharmouth Mudstone — 52.06°N, 1.76°WGulpen — 50.75°N, 5.67°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°ELully Foothills — 70.63°S, 69.70°W

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The named rock units Velatida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Velatida and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Velatida and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

314 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Velatida, 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

9 references

Each of the 14 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 Velatida

Credit
Peter Southwood
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Velatida 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itChevronida through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Perrier 1893)