Valettaster ocellatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ValettasterPBDB
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 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 18 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 18 of 18 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesPaleocene101–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–88 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93.9 Mya72.2 Mya101.3 Mya60.9 Mya

18 occurrences of Valettaster ocellatus on record, most of them in the Late 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

18 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

6 formations

Maastricht — 50.85°N, 5.70°EMaastricht — 50.86°N, 5.79°EBilá — 49.98°N, 15.60°EGulpen — 50.73°N, 5.67°EMaastricht — 50.80°N, 5.67°ESables de Montormel — 48.97°N, 0.05°WWilmington Sands — 50.80°N, 0.18°E

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The named rock units Valettaster ocellatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Valettaster ocellatus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Valettaster ocellatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

283 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Valettaster ocellatus, 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 18 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

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No picture of Valettaster ocellatus 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 Valettaster ocellatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Valettaster ocellatus 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 itValettaster through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Forbes 1848)