Lepidasterella montanensis

Lepidasterella montanensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LepidasterellaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Asteroidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asteroidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Asteroidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At most 3.3 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 326.9 Mya and 323.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous327–327 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 occurrences326–326 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 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–325 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 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences327.4 Mya323.1 Mya

1 occurrence of Lepidasterella montanensis 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

Heath — 46.95°N, 108.96°W

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

Lepidasterella montanensis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Lepidasterella montanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

32 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Lepidasterella montanensis, 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 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Lepidasterella montanensis

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No 3D scan of Lepidasterella montanensis 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 itLepidasterella through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Welsh 1984