Calliderma moreaui
No picture of Calliderma moreaui was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Calliderma moreaui, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CallidermaPBDB
- 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 most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Calliderma moreaui 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
2 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Calliderma moreaui has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Calliderma moreaui and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Calliderma moreaui and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Caletaster romani2 sites
- Cottaldia benettiae2 sites
- Discoides infera2 sites
- Hemiaster2 sites
- Hemiaster bufo2 sites
- Holaster2 sites
- Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris)2 sites
- Tetragramma variolare2 sites
- Anorthopygus orbicularis1 site
- Arca1 site
- Astropectinidae1 site
- Calycoceras (Calycoceras) naviculare1 site
- Catopygus carinatus1 site
- Comptonia soullansensis1 site
- Crateraster quinqueloba1 site
- Hadranderaster1 site
- Metoicoceras geslinianum1 site
- Nymphaster magistrorum1 site
- Orthopsis miliaris1 site
- Polydiadema1 site
- Pycinaster humilis1 site
- Pygaster1 site
- Sellithyris phaseolina1 site
- Terebratella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Calliderma moreaui, 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 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
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No picture of Calliderma moreaui was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Calliderma moreaui, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Calliderma moreaui 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 itCalliderma through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Néraudeau and Breton 1993