Strataster

No picture of Strataster was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Strataster, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtasteridaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ophiuroidea

Time the record covers

At least 57 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 7 of 9 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferous395–392 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 2 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 2 occurrences388–385 Mya — about 1 occurrence385–383 Mya — about 1 occurrence383–380 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences361–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–356 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences354–351 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–327 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences327–324 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387.95 Mya330.3 Mya395 Mya322 Mya

9 occurrences of Strataster on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

9 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

Voorstehoek — 33.00°S, 20.00°EVoorstehoek — 33.50°S, 19.82°EWaboomberg — 33.00°S, 20.00°ESilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WPanther Mountain — 42.70°N, 74.89°WArkona Shale — 43.10°N, 81.80°WCuyahoga — 41.31°N, 81.74°WBig Clifty — 38.24°N, 86.49°W

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

Strataster and its relatives

Devonian

Where Strataster and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

70 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Strataster, 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

6 references

Each of the 9 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 content0

No picture of Strataster was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Strataster, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itProtasteridae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kesling and Le Vasseur 1971