Altusoblastus

No picture of Altusoblastus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Altusoblastus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HyperoblastidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Blastoidea
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Blastoidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Blastoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Blastoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 399.5 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Devonian — about 11 of 11 occurrencesDevonian400–399 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences399–399 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences398–398 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences396–396 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences395–395 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 1 occurrence393–392 Mya — about 1 occurrence392–392 Mya — about 1 occurrence392–391 Mya — about 1 occurrence391–390 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences382–382 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393.47 Mya383.4 Mya400 Mya381.8 Mya

11 occurrences of Altusoblastus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

11 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

7 formations

Junkerberg — 50.23°N, 6.52°EFreilingen — 50.38°N, 6.70°EFreilingen — 50.33°N, 6.74°EHohenhof — 50.89°N, 7.58°EHohenrhein — 50.39°N, 7.71°ELauch — 50.22°N, 6.70°ENohn — 50.35°N, 6.76°EPortilla — 42.83°N, 5.65°W

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

Altusoblastus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Altusoblastus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

12 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Altusoblastus, 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 reference

Each of the 11 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 Altusoblastus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Altusoblastus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itHyperoblastidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bohatý et al. 2024