Ulrichaster macrodentatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- UlrichasterPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Urasterellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunal, solitaryPBDB, for Urasterellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Urasterellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ulrichaster macrodentatus 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
2 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
2 formations
- Voorstehoek Formation · Bokkeveld Group1
- Waboomberg Formation · Bokkeveld Group1
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The named rock units Ulrichaster macrodentatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ulrichaster macrodentatus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Ulrichaster macrodentatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Lingula2 sites
- Tentaculites2 sites
- Anchiopella1 site
- Australospirifer1 site
- Blastoidea1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Burmeisteria1 site
- Conularia1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Dignomia lepta1 site
- Drepanaster1 site
- Dutoitia1 site
- Echinasterella1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
- Eckidocrinus interbrachiatus n. gen. n. sp.1 site
- Eugasterella africana1 site
- Grammysia1 site
- Hannestheronia australis1 site
- Hexactinellida1 site
- Lycopsida1 site
- Metacryphaeus (Metacryphaeus) caffer1 site
- Metacryphaeus tuberculatus1 site
- Notiochonetes1 site
- Orbiculoidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ulrichaster macrodentatus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 Ulrichaster macrodentatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Ulrichaster macrodentatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ulrichaster macrodentatus 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 itUlrichaster through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jell and Theron 1999