Fandasterias

No picture of Fandasterias 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 Fandasterias, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FandasteridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Asteroidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asteroidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Asteroidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 353.7 Mya and 342.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous354–353 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences353–353 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences353–353 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences352–352 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346–346 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346–346 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences345–345 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences344–344 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences344–344 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences343–343 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences354.2 Mya342.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Fandasterias on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

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

2 formations

Burlington limestone — 37.18°N, 87.62°WHook head — 52.12°N, 6.92°W

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

Fandasterias and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Fandasterias and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from any of those sites.

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Fandasterias, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

2 references

Each 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. 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

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No picture of Fandasterias 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 Fandasterias, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Fandasterias 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 itFandasteridae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blake 1995