Centrostephanus

Centrostephanus is a genus of echinoderms belonging to the family Diadematidae.

Centrostephanus

Fernando Herranz Martín · GPL · 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
DiadematidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Diadematoida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Diadematoida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Diadematoida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 64 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 5 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–9.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.5–3.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences72.2 Mya7.246 Mya85 Mya4 Mya

5 occurrences of Centrostephanus on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

5 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

3 formations

Gulpen — 50.73°N, 5.67°EMaastricht — 50.86°N, 5.79°EBrèches rouges de Carboneras — 37.60°N, 1.32°W

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The named rock units Centrostephanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Centrostephanus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Centrostephanus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

236 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Centrostephanus, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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 Centrostephanus

Credit
Fernando Herranz Martín
Licence
GPL
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Centrostephanus 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.

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What may have been alongside itDiadematidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.