Mesopalaeasteridae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EuaxosidaPBDB
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 64 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Ordovician — about 20 of 24 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 3 of 24 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 24 occurrencesDevonian470–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–464 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences464–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences459–456 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences456–453 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences453–450 Mya — about 5 occurrences450–447 Mya — about 7 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 4 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence442–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–428 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences428–425 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences420–417 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences392–389 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences389–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458.2 Mya393.47 Mya470 Mya386 Mya

24 occurrences of Mesopalaeasteridae on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

24 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

20 formations

Kope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLexington Limestone — 37.64°N, 84.66°WLexington Limestone — 37.87°N, 84.63°WUtica Shale — 43.21°N, 75.46°WBellevue — 39.00°N, 84.00°WCorryville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WMount Auburn — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLiberty — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WElkhorn — 39.00°N, 84.00°WCabot Head — 43.14°N, 79.38°WArnheim — 39.00°N, 84.00°WStinava-Chabicov — 49.85°N, 17.52°EMartinsburg — 40.48°N, 76.53°WSouth Threave — 55.29°N, 4.76°WLower Leintwardine — 52.37°N, 2.88°WMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.52°N, 2.10°WClays Ferry — 38.38°N, 84.30°WBuilth Volcanic — 52.24°N, 3.28°W

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

Mesopalaeasteridae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Mesopalaeasteridae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

551 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Mesopalaeasteridae, 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

10 references

Each of the 24 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 Mesopalaeasteridae 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 Mesopalaeasteridae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schuchert 1915