Promopalaeaster

Promopalaeaster

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PromopalaeasteridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunal, solitaryPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Ordovician — about 21 of 25 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 3 of 25 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 25 occurrencesDevonian459–456 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence452–450 Mya — about 7 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 4 occurrences448–445 Mya — about 4 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 2 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 1 occurrence441–439 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences439–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453.8 Mya419.62 Mya459 Mya392 Mya

25 occurrences of Promopalaeaster on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

25 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

17 formations

Fairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLiberty — 39.00°N, 84.00°WCabot Head — 43.14°N, 79.38°WArnheim — 39.00°N, 84.00°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WMartinsburg — 40.48°N, 76.53°WBellevue — 39.00°N, 84.00°WCorryville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WMount Auburn — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WElkhorn — 39.00°N, 84.00°WProsser Limestone — 44.00°N, 92.00°WStewartville — 44.00°N, 92.00°WBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WTalacasto — 30.50°S, 68.50°WHull — 45.41°N, 75.73°W

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The named rock units Promopalaeaster 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.

Promopalaeaster and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Promopalaeaster and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

450 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Promopalaeaster, 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

8 references

Each of the 25 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

Media content1

Picture of Promopalaeaster

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Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Promopalaeaster 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 itPromopalaeasteridae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schuchert 1914