Hemiaster (Bolbaster) prunella
No picture of Hemiaster (Bolbaster) prunella 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 Hemiaster (Bolbaster) prunella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Hemiaster (Bolbaster)PBDB
- Diet
- deposit feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Spatangoida
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Spatangoida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Spatangoida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Spatangoida
Time the record covers
At most 45 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
20 occurrences of Hemiaster (Bolbaster) prunella on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
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The named rock units Hemiaster (Bolbaster) prunella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hemiaster (Bolbaster) prunella and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Hemiaster (Bolbaster) prunella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
159 taxa- Hemipneustes striatoradiatus12 sites
- Echinogalerus9 sites
- Nucleopygus scrobiculatus8 sites
- Nucleopygus7 sites
- Tylocidaris7 sites
- Diplodetus6 sites
- Gauthieria pseudoradiata6 sites
- Goniasteridae6 sites
- Oolopygus6 sites
- Procassidulus lapiscancri6 sites
- Salenidia maestrichtensis6 sites
- Trichaster ornatus6 sites
- Cardiaster granulosus5 sites
- Chomataster acules5 sites
- Felderophiura vanderhami5 sites
- Temnocidaris5 sites
- Trochalosoma5 sites
- <cidarid>4 sites
- Applinocrinus cretaceus4 sites
- Astropectinidae4 sites
- Catopygus4 sites
- Conulus4 sites
- Dunnicrinus aequalis4 sites
- Jaekelometra belgica4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Hemiaster (Bolbaster) prunella, 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
6 references- Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 4: Echinoids9
- Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary echinoids from northern Spain: implications for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event7
- Dinosaurs from the Maastrichtian-type area (southeastern Netherlands, northeastern Belgium)1
- Taxodiaceous conifers from the Maastrichtian type area (Late Cretaceous, NE Belgium, SE Netherlands)1
- Late Maastrichtian and Early Palaeocene index macrofossils in the Maastrichtian type area (SE Netherlands, NE Belgium)1
- Coniacian-Maastrichtian of the Tremp Area (South Central Pyrenees)1
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. 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 Hemiaster (Bolbaster) prunella 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 Hemiaster (Bolbaster) prunella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hemiaster (Bolbaster) prunella 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 itHemiaster (Bolbaster) through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1816)