Crateraster favosus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CraterasterPBDB
- 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 least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 61.66 Mya.
3 occurrences of Crateraster favosus 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous67%
- Paleocene33%
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 Crateraster favosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Crateraster favosus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Crateraster favosus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
198 taxa- Chomataster acules3 sites
- Micraster3 sites
- Ophiomusium granulosum3 sites
- Bourgueticrinus2 sites
- Bourgueticrinus ellipticus2 sites
- Bourgueticrinus hureae2 sites
- Cardiotaxis2 sites
- Coulonia2 sites
- Echinocorys2 sites
- Echinogalerus2 sites
- Gauthieria mosae2 sites
- Hemiaster2 sites
- Lophidiaster pygmaeus2 sites
- Metopaster praetumidus2 sites
- Micraster schroederi2 sites
- Nielsenicrinus carinatus2 sites
- Nymphaster studlandensis2 sites
- Ophiocoma senonensis2 sites
- Rachiosoma corollare2 sites
- Recurvaster radiatus2 sites
- Stegophiura hagenowi2 sites
- Temnocidaris2 sites
- Adelopneustes boehmi1 site
- Amphiura plana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Crateraster favosus, 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- Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 5: Asteroids2
- Kalken paa Saltholm1
Each of the 3 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 Crateraster favosus 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 Crateraster favosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Crateraster favosus 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 itCrateraster through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Spencer 1913)