Recurvaster

Recurvaster

Vizcaïno, Daniel · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GoniasterinaePBDB
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 least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 7 of 21 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 21 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 11 of 21 occurrencesEocene85–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–64 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence72.2 Mya41.03 Mya84.5 Mya36.8 Mya

21 occurrences of Recurvaster on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

21 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

7 formations

Santee Limestone — 33.45°N, 80.16°WSantee Limestone — 33.51°N, 80.49°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.41°N, 80.10°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WGulpen — 50.73°N, 5.67°EGulpen — 50.75°N, 5.67°EMarnes de Foncouverte — 43.15°N, 2.50°EMarnes de Foncouverte — 43.15°N, 2.57°EMarnes de Foncouverte — 43.17°N, 2.70°EVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WVincentown — 39.93°N, 74.73°WCastle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.65°WCastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.86°WMaastricht — 50.86°N, 5.79°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°E

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The named rock units Recurvaster 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.

Recurvaster and its relatives

Eocene

Where Recurvaster and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

574 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Recurvaster, 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

7 references

Each of the 21 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 Recurvaster

Source
GBIF
Credit
Vizcaïno, Daniel
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Recurvaster 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 itGoniasterinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brünnich-Nielsen 1943