Furcaster coulombeae

No picture of Furcaster coulombeae 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 coulombeae, 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 most 6.9 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 330.3 Mya and 323.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous331–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330.8 Mya322.9 Mya

1 occurrence of Furcaster coulombeae 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

1 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

Big Clifty — 38.24°N, 86.49°W

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

Furcaster coulombeae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Furcaster coulombeae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Furcaster coulombeae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Furcaster coulombeae 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 itFurcaster through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith et al. 2025