Toxaster retusus

Toxaster retusus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ToxasterPBDB
Diet
deposit feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Spatangoida
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Spatangoida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Spatangoida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Spatangoida

Time the record covers

At least 6.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 101 of 101 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous138–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 8 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 8 occurrences131–131 Mya — about 8 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 8 occurrences130–130 Mya — about 8 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 8 occurrences129–129 Mya — about 8 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 8 occurrences128–128 Mya — about 8 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 8 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 8 occurrences126–126 Mya — about 8 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 2 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132.6 Mya125.77 Mya137.6 Mya120.9 Mya

101 occurrences of Toxaster retusus 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

101 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

5 formations

Calcaires à Spatangues — 48.73°N, 4.92°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.69°N, 5.03°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.64°N, 5.04°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.60°N, 5.13°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.54°N, 5.05°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.53°N, 4.99°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.42°N, 5.06°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.41°N, 4.87°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.40°N, 4.84°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.35°N, 4.74°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.30°N, 4.58°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.27°N, 4.53°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.21°N, 4.54°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.16°N, 4.45°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.17°N, 4.34°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.11°N, 4.32°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.09°N, 4.24°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.02°N, 4.17°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.02°N, 4.04°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.98°N, 4.08°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.94°N, 3.98°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.83°N, 3.93°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.95°N, 3.90°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.92°N, 3.84°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.87°N, 3.66°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.83°N, 3.67°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.80°N, 3.65°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.76°N, 3.51°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.74°N, 3.52°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.33°N, 2.83°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.64°N, 3.33°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.51°N, 3.12°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.40°N, 2.77°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.35°N, 2.75°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.68°N, 3.37°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.57°N, 3.23°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.55°N, 3.18°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.50°N, 3.05°EPierre jaune — 47.02°N, 6.98°EMarnes à Toxaster — 38.81°N, 9.47°WCalcaires récifaux — 38.81°N, 9.47°Wcalcaires récifaux inférieurs — 38.73°N, 9.42°W

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The named rock units Toxaster retusus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Toxaster retusus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Toxaster retusus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

62 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 101 sites for Toxaster retusus, 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

5 references

Each of the 101 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

Media content1

Picture of Toxaster retusus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itToxaster through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1816)