Pentasteria (Pentasteria)

No picture of Pentasteria (Pentasteria) 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 Pentasteria (Pentasteria), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PentasteriaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Astropectinidae
Life habit
semi-infaunal, solitaryPBDB, for Astropectinidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Astropectinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Astropectinidae

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.6 Mya to 145.06 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 3 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic169–168 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.2 Mya149.2 Mya169.1 Mya144.6 Mya

3 occurrences of Pentasteria (Pentasteria) 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

3 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

2 formations

Papierschiefer — 48.87°N, 11.77°EOrnatenton — 52.28°N, 8.76°E

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The named rock units Pentasteria (Pentasteria) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pentasteria (Pentasteria) and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Pentasteria (Pentasteria) and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

30 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pentasteria (Pentasteria), 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

Each of the 3 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 Pentasteria (Pentasteria) 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 Pentasteria (Pentasteria), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pentasteria (Pentasteria) 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 itPentasteria through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hess 1960