Caletaster

Caletaster

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GoniasteridaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Goniasteridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Goniasteridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Goniasteridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Goniasteridae

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 31 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 29 of 31 occurrencesLate Cretaceous127–125 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 5 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 5 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 5 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 5 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 2 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences121.4 Mya85.7 Mya126.6 Mya82.8 Mya

31 occurrences of Caletaster 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

31 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

6 formations

Wilmington Sands — 50.80°N, 0.18°ESables de Montormel — 48.97°N, 0.05°WLa Tonnelle — 46.85°N, 1.88°WUpper Greensand — 50.80°N, 0.18°ESecond niveau de Calcaires à Rudistes — 45.95°N, 1.08°WB3/C1 — 45.93°N, 0.98°W

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The named rock units Caletaster has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Caletaster and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Caletaster and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

430 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Caletaster, 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

6 references

Each of the 31 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Caletaster

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Caletaster 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 itGoniasteridae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Breton 1978