Pentasteria recta

No picture of Pentasteria recta 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 recta, 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 3.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 4 of 5 occurrencesLate Jurassic165–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 1 occurrence159–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–158 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161.5 Mya157.9 Mya165.8 Mya154.3 Mya

5 occurrences of Pentasteria recta on record, most of them in the Late 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

5 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

4 formations

Effingerschichten — 47.27°N, 7.52°ECouches à Spérites — 47.98°N, 4.85°EMarnes de Latrecey — 47.98°N, 4.85°EMarnes de Dives — 49.34°N, 0.03°E

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The named rock units Pentasteria recta 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 recta and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Pentasteria recta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pentasteria recta, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Pentasteria recta 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 Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (McCoy 1848)