Stauraster

No picture of Stauraster was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Stauraster, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StauranderasteridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Asteroidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asteroidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Asteroidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 159 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 157.9 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 5 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 3 of 5 occurrencesLate Jurassic194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence184.2 Mya159 Mya193.6 Mya157.2 Mya

5 occurrences of Stauraster 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

Marnes de Latrecey — 47.98°N, 4.85°ECouches à Spérites — 47.98°N, 4.85°EPierre Blanche de Langrune — 49.30°N, 0.35°WCharmouthien — 49.27°N, 0.80°W

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The named rock units Stauraster has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Stauraster and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Stauraster and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

31 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Stauraster, 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

2 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

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No picture of Stauraster was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Stauraster, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Stauraster 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 itStauranderasteridae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Valette 1928