Infulaster
No picture of Infulaster was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Infulaster, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HolasteridaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Holasteroida
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Holasteroida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Holasteroida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Holasteroida
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Infulaster 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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.
Infulaster and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Infulaster and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Echinocorys gravesi2 sites
- Inoceramus2 sites
- Micraster leskei2 sites
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Calcancora venusta1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Echinocorys1 site
- Echinocorys scutata1 site
- Eutrephoceras darupense1 site
- Galerites subrotunda1 site
- Helvetoglobotruncana1 site
- Hemisphaeranthos frankei1 site
- Inoceramus (Heroceramus) hercules1 site
- Inoceramus costellatus costellatus1 site
- Inoceramus costellatus longealatus1 site
- Inoceramus perplexus1 site
- Inoceramus striatoconcentricus carpathicus1 site
- Inoceramus waltersdorfensis hannovrensis1 site
- Lepisosteus1 site
- Lewesiceras mantelli1 site
- Paranomotodon angustidens1 site
- Paratriakis1 site
- Plesiocorys (Plesiocorys) transiens1 site
- Porifera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Infulaster, 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
3 references- Apodid sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) from the Upper Turonian of the Isle of Wolin, NW Poland1
- Möglicher Neufund eines Haizahnes von Protoxynotus misburgiensis Herman 19751
- Die Oberkreide der Sack-Mulde bei Alfeld (Cenoman-Unter-Coniac) Lithologie, Biostratigraphie und Inoceramen1
Each of the 3 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
No picture of Infulaster was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Infulaster, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHolasteridae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Desor 1858