Drepanaster

No picture of Drepanaster was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Drepanaster, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtasteridaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ophiuroidea

Time the record covers

At least 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 448.8 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 5 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 5 occurrencesDevonian — about 4 of 5 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 5 occurrences451–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–444 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences394–391 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences391–388 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences388–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–363 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences363–360 Mya — about 1 occurrence360–357 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences445.2 Mya365.2 Mya451 Mya357 Mya

5 occurrences of Drepanaster on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

5 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.

Found in

4 formations

Pilton Mudstone — 51.11°N, 4.15°WVoorstehoek — 33.50°S, 19.82°EPilton Shales — 51.08°N, 4.05°WSouth Threave — 55.29°N, 4.76°W

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The named rock units Drepanaster has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Drepanaster and its relatives

Devonian

Where Drepanaster and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

99 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Drepanaster, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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 Drepanaster was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Drepanaster, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Drepanaster 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.

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What may have been alongside itProtasteridae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Whidborne 1898)