Chrispaulia radiatus
No picture of Chrispaulia radiatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Chrispaulia radiatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChrispauliaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Goniopectinidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunal, solitaryPBDB, for Goniopectinidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Goniopectinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
- Environment
- oceanic,marinePBDB, for Goniopectinidae
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.
5 occurrences of Chrispaulia radiatus 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
5 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Chrispaulia radiatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chrispaulia radiatus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Chrispaulia radiatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Astropectinidae1 site
- Caletaster romani1 site
- Calliderma juigneti1 site
- Calliderma smithiae1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Comptonia elegans1 site
- Comptoniaster comptoni1 site
- Crateraster debrisi1 site
- Cretiscalpellum1 site
- Cyclothyris1 site
- Euhystricoceras nicaisei1 site
- Filograna1 site
- Gryphaeostrea canaliculata1 site
- Hyphoplites falcatus1 site
- Inoceramus1 site
- Mantelliceras mantelli1 site
- Mantelliceras saxbii1 site
- Mastaster villersensis1 site
- Metopaster andreae1 site
- Metopaster parkinsoni1 site
- Modiolus ligeriensis1 site
- Neostlingoceras carcitanensis1 site
- Nymphaster1 site
- Nymphaster dutempleanus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Chrispaulia radiatus, 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
2 references- Chrispaulia, a new genus of mud star (Asteroidea, Goniopectinidae) from the Cretaceous of England4
- Une carapace de crabe préservée dans le moule interne d'un gastéropode du Cénomanien de Basse-Normandie (France)1
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. 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 content0
No picture of Chrispaulia radiatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Chrispaulia radiatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itChrispaulia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Spencer 1905)