Nymphaster magistrorum
No picture of Nymphaster magistrorum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 magistrorum, 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Nymphaster magistrorum 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
2 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.
Nymphaster magistrorum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Nymphaster magistrorum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Crateraster quinqueloba2 sites
- Pycinaster humilis2 sites
- Asteroidea1 site
- Caletaster romani1 site
- Calliderma moreaui1 site
- Catopygus carinatus1 site
- Comptonia soullansensis1 site
- Concinnithyris obesa1 site
- Cottaldia benettiae1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Discoides infera1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Gibbithyris1 site
- Hadranderaster1 site
- Hemiaster1 site
- Hemiaster bufo1 site
- Holaster1 site
- Lophidiaster1 site
- Mytiloides labiatus1 site
- Orbirhynchia cuvieri1 site
- Stauranderasteridae1 site
- Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris)1 site
- Tetragramma variolare1 site
- Tylocidaris clavigera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Nymphaster magistrorum, 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- Astérides du Cénomanien de Charente-Maritime (SW France)1
- Les Goniasteridae (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) jurassiques et crétacés de France. Taphonomie, systématique, biostratigraphie, paléobiogéographie, évolution.1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Nymphaster magistrorum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 magistrorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nymphaster magistrorum 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. (Breton 1988)