Comptoniaster berthandi

Comptoniaster berthandi

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
ComptoniasterPBDB
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 400 thousand years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.6 Mya and 168.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceMiddle Jurassic169–169 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences169.1 Mya167.7 Mya

1 occurrence of Comptoniaster berthandi on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

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.

Comptoniaster berthandi and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Comptoniaster berthandi and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Comptoniaster berthandi, 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 reference

Each 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 content1

Picture of Comptoniaster berthandi

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Comptoniaster berthandi was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itComptoniaster through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wright 1880)