Pentetagonaster malbosii

No picture of Pentetagonaster malbosii 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 Pentetagonaster malbosii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PentetagonasterPBDB
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 2.1 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 139.1 Mya and 137.05 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly Cretaceous139–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139.6 Mya136.55 Mya

1 occurrence of Pentetagonaster malbosii on record, most of them in the Early 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

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.

Pentetagonaster malbosii and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Pentetagonaster malbosii and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

9 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pentetagonaster malbosii, 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 reference

Each 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

Media content0

No picture of Pentetagonaster malbosii 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 Pentetagonaster malbosii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pentetagonaster malbosii was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPentetagonaster through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1850