Manfredaster bulbiferus
No picture of Manfredaster bulbiferus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Manfredaster bulbiferus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ManfredasterPBDB
- 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 least 4.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya.
7 occurrences of Manfredaster bulbiferus 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
7 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.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Manfredaster bulbiferus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Manfredaster bulbiferus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Manfredaster bulbiferus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
99 taxa- Metopaster uncatus5 sites
- Valettaster argus5 sites
- Valettaster ocellatus5 sites
- Crateraster quinqueloba4 sites
- Metopaster hunteri4 sites
- Metopaster parkinsoni4 sites
- Pycinaster angustatus4 sites
- Arthraster cristatus3 sites
- Manfredaster senonensis3 sites
- Arthraster dixoni2 sites
- Caletaster girardi2 sites
- Gavelinella2 sites
- Hadranderaster simplex2 sites
- Lophidiaster2 sites
- Lophidiaster ornatus2 sites
- Neomicrorbis2 sites
- Nymphaster2 sites
- Nymphaster humilis2 sites
- Ophiuroidea2 sites
- Porosphaera2 sites
- Pycinaster2 sites
- Reussella2 sites
- Valettaster2 sites
- Amphidonte (Amphidonte)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Manfredaster bulbiferus, 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- Les Goniasteridae (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) jurassiques et crétacés de France. Taphonomie, systématique, biostratigraphie, paléobiogéographie, évolution.5
- Late Cretaceous environments and communities as recorded at Chrtníky (Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic)1
- Les stelléridés mésozoïques du bassin de Paris1
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Manfredaster bulbiferus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Manfredaster bulbiferus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Manfredaster bulbiferus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itManfredaster through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Forbes 1848)