Caratomus althi
No picture of Caratomus althi 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 Caratomus althi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EchinogalerusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Holectypoida
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Holectypoida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Holectypoida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Caratomus althi 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.
Caratomus althi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Caratomus althi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Acrolamna acuminata1 site
- Caratomus affinis1 site
- Carneithyris carnea1 site
- Ceriopora1 site
- Cidaris1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Discoides1 site
- Epitheles robusta1 site
- Galerites castanea1 site
- Galerites laevis1 site
- Gibbithyris semiglobosa1 site
- Holaster carinatus1 site
- Holaster suborbicularis1 site
- Mytiloides labiatus1 site
- Neithea quinquecostata1 site
- Nucleatina biplicata1 site
- Pecten cenomanensis1 site
- Pseudholaster bicarinatus1 site
- Retispongia sp.1 site
- Rhynchonella dimidiata1 site
- Sellithyris phaseolina1 site
- Siphonia (Siphonia) pyriformis1 site
- Terebratula gallina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Caratomus althi, 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 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Caratomus althi 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 Caratomus althi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Caratomus althi 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 itEchinogalerus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zaręczny 1878