Furcaster cataphractus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FurcasterPBDB
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 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 379 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Devonian — about 20 of 20 occurrencesDevonian411–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 10 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 1 occurrence381–379 Mya — about 1 occurrence379–378 Mya — about 1 occurrence378–377 Mya — about 1 occurrence377–375 Mya — about 1 occurrence375–374 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393.47 Mya379 Mya411.4 Mya371.4 Mya

20 occurrences of Furcaster cataphractus 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

20 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

1 formation

Kowala — 50.83°N, 20.37°EKowala — 50.88°N, 20.57°EKowala — 50.85°N, 20.82°EKowala — 50.82°N, 20.58°EKowala — 50.80°N, 20.47°E

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The named rock units Furcaster cataphractus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Furcaster cataphractus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Furcaster cataphractus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

34 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Furcaster cataphractus, 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 reference

Each of the 20 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Furcaster cataphractus 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 itFurcaster through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boczarowski 2001