Loriolaster

Loriolaster

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EncrinasteridaePBDB
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 least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 399.5 Mya.

Silurian — about 2 of 4 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 4 occurrencesDevonian439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432.9 Mya410.62 Mya439.4 Mya398.7 Mya

4 occurrences of Loriolaster on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

4 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

3 formations

Hunsrück Slate — 49.83°N, 7.37°ELower Leintwardine — 52.37°N, 2.88°WReservoir — 55.80°N, 3.33°W

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

Loriolaster and its relatives

Silurian

Where Loriolaster and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

186 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Loriolaster, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Loriolaster

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Loriolaster 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 itEncrinasteridae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stürtz 1886