Brisaster latifrons

Brisaster latifrons is a species of sea urchins of the family Schizasteridae. Their armour is covered with spines. Brisaster latifrons was first scientifically described in 1898 by Alexander Emanuel Agassiz.

Brisaster latifrons

Jimi N, Kimura T, Ogawa A, Kajihara H (2018) A new species of the rare, deep-sea polychaete genus Benthoscolex from t… · CC BY 4.0 · 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
BrisasterPBDB
Diet
deposit feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Spatangoida
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Spatangoida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Spatangoida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Spatangoida

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPliocene28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.6–4.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15.98 Mya5.333 Mya27.8 Mya3.1 Mya

2 occurrences of Brisaster latifrons on record. 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

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

Padowa Beds — 10.43°S, 150.27°EKairuku — 8.82°S, 146.53°E

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

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Brisaster latifrons, 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 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Brisaster latifrons

Credit
Jimi N, Kimura T, Ogawa A, Kajihara H (2018) A new species of the rare, deep-sea polychaete genus Benthoscolex from t…
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Brisaster latifrons 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itBrisaster through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz 1898)