Atalopegaster gundersoni

Atalopegaster gundersoni

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AtalopegasterPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Forcipulatida
Life habit
low-level epifaunal, solitaryPBDB, for Forcipulatida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Forcipulatida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Forcipulatida

Time the record covers

At most 19 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 161.5 Mya and 143.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 1 occurrenceLate Jurassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 1 occurrence162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162 Mya142.6 Mya

1 occurrence of Atalopegaster gundersoni on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

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

1 formation

Swift — 45.20°N, 108.80°W

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

Atalopegaster gundersoni and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Atalopegaster gundersoni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Atalopegaster gundersoni, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

1 reference

Each 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 Atalopegaster gundersoni

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Atalopegaster gundersoni 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.

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What may have been alongside itAtalopegaster through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blake and Guensburg 2016