Echinasterella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StenuroideaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Asterozoa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Asterozoa
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Asterozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 399.5 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 387.95 Mya.
5 occurrences of Echinasterella 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- Devonian100%
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
3 formations
- Ponta Grossa Formation3
- Hunsrück Slate Formation1
- Voorstehoek Formation · Bokkeveld Group1
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The named rock units Echinasterella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Echinasterella and its relatives
DevonianWhere Echinasterella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
228 taxa- Australospirifer4 sites
- Conularia4 sites
- Crinoidea4 sites
- Lingula4 sites
- Orbiculoidea4 sites
- Palaeoneilo4 sites
- Serpulites4 sites
- Tentaculites4 sites
- Australocoelia3 sites
- Encrinaster3 sites
- Mesoconularia3 sites
- Notiochonetes3 sites
- Nuculites3 sites
- Paranacystis3 sites
- Paraprothyris3 sites
- Plectonotus3 sites
- Pleurodapis3 sites
- Ptomatis3 sites
- Schuchertella3 sites
- Solemya3 sites
- Sphenotus3 sites
- Burmeisteria2 sites
- Calmonia2 sites
- Cypricardella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Echinasterella, 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
3 references- The Malvinokaffric realm in the Devonian of Brazil3
- Preliminary catalogue and report on the biostratigraphy and palaeogeographic distribution of the Bokkeveld fauna1
- Pflanzen im Hunsrueckschiefer1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Echinasterella 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 Echinasterella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Echinasterella 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 itStenuroidea through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stürtz 1890