Amplaster
No picture of Amplaster 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 Amplaster, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MonophorasteridaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Clypeasteroida
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Amplaster on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Amplaster has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Amplaster and its relatives
MioceneWhere Amplaster and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Abertella1 site
- Ameghinomya argentina1 site
- Atrina1 site
- Austrocallista iheringi1 site
- Brisaster iheringi1 site
- Buccinanops halleri1 site
- Callianassa1 site
- Cominella annae1 site
- Crassatellidae1 site
- Crassostrea hatcheri1 site
- Cyrtopleura lanceolata1 site
- Discinisca porvenir1 site
- Discoporella1 site
- Fissidentalium1 site
- Glossaulax secundum1 site
- Glycymeris camaronesia1 site
- Jorgechlamys juliana1 site
- Macoma perplana1 site
- Miomelon gracilis1 site
- Neovenericor camachoi1 site
- Ophiocrossota1 site
- Pachycymbiola camachoi1 site
- Patagonicardium1 site
- Penion subrectus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Amplaster, 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- The fossil invertebrate marine fauna of the Gaiman Formation (Lower Miocene) at Bryn Gwyn (Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina)1
- A brittle star bed from the Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina1
Each 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
Media content0
No picture of Amplaster 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 Amplaster, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amplaster was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itMonophorasteridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Martínez 1984