Crateraster fourayae
No picture of Crateraster fourayae 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 fourayae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 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.
2 occurrences of Crateraster fourayae 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
2 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.
Crateraster fourayae and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Crateraster fourayae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Archiacia2 sites
- Caletaster romani2 sites
- Catopygus carinatus2 sites
- Coenholectypus excisus2 sites
- Echinogalerus2 sites
- Fredaster guyaderi2 sites
- Hemiaster2 sites
- Metopaster parkinsoni2 sites
- Polydiadema2 sites
- Astropectinidae1 site
- Calliderma smithiae1 site
- Comptonia1 site
- Comptonia soullansensis1 site
- Goniopygus menardi1 site
- Icthyosarcolites1 site
- Nerinea1 site
- Nucleopygus1 site
- Nucleopygus minor1 site
- Periaster1 site
- Phymosoma1 site
- Praeradiolites1 site
- Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi1 site
- Pterodonta1 site
- Pygaulus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Crateraster fourayae, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Crateraster fourayae 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 fourayae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Crateraster fourayae 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
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. Breton 1992