Asterorbis

Yusdany · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- ForaminiferaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Asterorbis on record, most of them in the Late 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
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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.
Asterorbis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Asterorbis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Alencasterites mooretownensis1 site
- Ammobaculites1 site
- Antillocaprina1 site
- Bacinella1 site
- Chaetetidae1 site
- Cliona1 site
- Corallinaceae1 site
- Coralliochama1 site
- Coralliochama orcutti1 site
- Dasycladaceae1 site
- Distefanella1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Girvanella1 site
- Mitrocaprina1 site
- Nubecularia1 site
- Peyssonneliaceae1 site
- Plagioptychus1 site
- Plagioptychus fragilis1 site
- Polystrata alba1 site
- Polytremacis1 site
- Porifera1 site
- Pycnoporidium1 site
- Quinqueloculina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Asterorbis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content1

Picture of Asterorbis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Yusdany
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Asterorbis 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 itForaminifera through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.