Nymphaster dutempleanus
No picture of Nymphaster dutempleanus 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 Nymphaster dutempleanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NymphasterPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Goniasteridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Goniasteridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Goniasteridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Goniasteridae
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Nymphaster dutempleanus 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Nymphaster dutempleanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nymphaster dutempleanus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Nymphaster dutempleanus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Astropectinidae1 site
- Caletaster romani1 site
- Calliderma juigneti1 site
- Calliderma smithiae1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Chrispaulia radiatus1 site
- Comptonia elegans1 site
- Comptoniaster comptoni1 site
- Crateraster debrisi1 site
- Cretiscalpellum1 site
- Cyclothyris1 site
- Euhystricoceras nicaisei1 site
- Filograna1 site
- Gryphaeostrea canaliculata1 site
- Hyphoplites falcatus1 site
- Inoceramus1 site
- Mantelliceras mantelli1 site
- Mantelliceras saxbii1 site
- Mastaster villersensis1 site
- Metopaster andreae1 site
- Metopaster parkinsoni1 site
- Modiolus ligeriensis1 site
- Neostlingoceras carcitanensis1 site
- Ostrea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Nymphaster dutempleanus, 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 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 Nymphaster dutempleanus 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 Nymphaster dutempleanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nymphaster dutempleanus 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 itNymphaster through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1850)