Dendraster gibbsii humilis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Dendraster gibbsiiPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Clypeasteroida
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Dendraster gibbsii humilis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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- Pliocene100%
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.
Dendraster gibbsii humilis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Dendraster gibbsii humilis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Arbacia incisa1 site
- Argopecten callidus1 site
- Argopecten cristobalensis1 site
- Argopecten invalidus1 site
- Argopecten percarus1 site
- Argopecten purpuratus1 site
- Argopecten subdolus1 site
- Argopecten ventricosus1 site
- Asperiscala minuticosta1 site
- Astrodapsis kewi1 site
- Clypeaster deserti1 site
- Coelopleurus coronaformis1 site
- Dendostrea vespertina1 site
- Dendraster cedrosensis1 site
- Dendraster diegoensis1 site
- Dendraster pentagonalis1 site
- Euvola bella1 site
- Euvola vogdesi1 site
- Haliotis rufescens1 site
- Laqueus vancouverensis1 site
- Leopecten stearnsii1 site
- Leporimetis obesa1 site
- Leptopecten latiauratus1 site
- Lucina (Epilucina) californica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dendraster gibbsii humilis, 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 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 Dendraster gibbsii humilis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Dendraster gibbsii humilis 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 itDendraster gibbsii through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kew 1920