Comptoniaster peetersorum
No picture of Comptoniaster peetersorum 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 Comptoniaster peetersorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 12 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Comptoniaster peetersorum 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Comptoniaster peetersorum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Comptoniaster peetersorum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Comptoniaster peetersorum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Bourgueticrinus1 site
- Bourgueticrinus ellipticus1 site
- Bourgueticrinus hureae1 site
- Cardiotaxis1 site
- Chomataster acules1 site
- Coulonia1 site
- Crateraster favosus1 site
- Echinocorys1 site
- Echinogalerus1 site
- Gauthieria mosae1 site
- Metopaster praetumidus1 site
- Micraster1 site
- Micraster schroederi1 site
- Nielsenicrinus carinatus1 site
- Nymphaster alseni1 site
- Nymphaster studlandensis1 site
- Ophiocoma senonensis1 site
- Ophiomusium granulosum1 site
- Ophryaster oligoplax1 site
- Pteraster1 site
- Rachiosoma corollare1 site
- Recurvaster radiatus1 site
- Stegophiura hagenowi1 site
- Temnocidaris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Comptoniaster peetersorum, 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 Comptoniaster peetersorum 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 Comptoniaster peetersorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Comptoniaster peetersorum 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.
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What may have been alongside itComptoniaster through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jagt 2000