Cardiaster

Cardiaster

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CardiasteridaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Holasteroida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Holasteroida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Holasteroida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Holasteroida

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 52 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 72 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 72 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 69 of 72 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 72 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 72 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 5 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 9 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 13 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 11 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 5 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 5 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 5 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 7 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 7 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–53 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences53–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93.9 Mya56 Mya145 Mya50 Mya

72 occurrences of Cardiaster 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

72 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

23 formations

Olazagutia — 42.88°N, 2.20°WGulpen — 50.73°N, 5.67°EGulpen — 50.75°N, 5.67°EAnacacho Limestone — 29.20°N, 100.07°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.39°N, 99.15°WMaastricht — 50.85°N, 5.70°ECotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCotinguiba — 10.86°S, 37.17°WMaastricht — 50.80°N, 5.67°ETexanitid Marls — 42.17°N, 0.90°ESant Corneli — 42.17°N, 0.90°ESaratoga Chalk — 34.08°N, 93.12°WSaratoga Chalk — 33.97°N, 93.37°WTaylor Marl — 29.18°N, 100.50°WTaylor Marl — 29.20°N, 100.39°WCerro Toro — 51.10°S, 72.77°WCerro Toro — 50.97°S, 72.75°WCorsicana Marl — 29.40°N, 98.63°WVaals — 50.73°N, 5.67°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°EMiddle Chalk — 50.80°N, 0.18°EAhlen — 51.77°N, 7.98°EAnseroles — 42.25°N, 0.97°EHerba-savina Clays — 42.17°N, 0.90°EVila Vella — 42.17°N, 0.90°EPierre Shale — 46.70°N, 104.55°WMerchantville — 40.45°N, 74.25°WRed Bluff Tuff — 43.97°S, 176.59°WGerharsreit — 47.81°N, 12.65°E

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The named rock units Cardiaster has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cardiaster and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

708 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 69 sites for Cardiaster, 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

25 references

Each of the 72 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. 13 further references are not listed. 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 Cardiaster

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCardiasteridae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Forbes 1850