Mesotremaster mazetieri
No picture of Mesotremaster mazetieri 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 Mesotremaster mazetieri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesotremasterPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Spinulosida
- Life habit
- epifaunal, solitaryPBDB, for Spinulosida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Spinulosida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
- Environment
- coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,marinePBDB, for Spinulosida
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Mesotremaster mazetieri on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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- Middle Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Mesotremaster mazetieri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mesotremaster mazetieri and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Mesotremaster mazetieri and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Arthraster spenceri1 site
- Asteriaceros stelliferus1 site
- Astropecten1 site
- Astropecten casterasi1 site
- Astropecten corroyi1 site
- Astropecten delaunayi1 site
- Astropecten moutieri1 site
- Lambertella valetti1 site
- Lophidiaster hawkinsi1 site
- Pulcinellaster boulei1 site
- Stauraster primaevus1 site
- Tylasteria luciensis1 site
- Tylasteria prisca1 site
- Valettaster dangeardi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Mesotremaster mazetieri, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 referenceEach 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
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No picture of Mesotremaster mazetieri 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 Mesotremaster mazetieri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesotremaster mazetieri 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 itMesotremaster through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mercier 1935)