Hemiaster stella

Hemiaster stella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HemiasterPBDB
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 least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 56 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 7 of 13 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 13 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 1 occurrence88–87 Mya — about 1 occurrence87–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85.7 Mya59.24 Mya90.5 Mya55.3 Mya

13 occurrences of Hemiaster stella 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

13 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

7 formations

El Zadorra — 42.88°N, 2.20°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WVincentown — 39.80°N, 75.06°WVincentown — 39.88°N, 75.13°WBruderndorf — 48.53°N, 16.33°ERipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WCabo de Lata — 42.91°N, 1.78°WJagüel — 36.55°S, 68.15°WRoca — 37.67°S, 67.50°W

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

Hemiaster stella and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Hemiaster stella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

475 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Hemiaster stella, 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

7 references

Each of the 13 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

Media content1

Picture of Hemiaster stella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Hemiaster stella 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 itHemiaster through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morton 1830)