Balanocrinus

Balanocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BalanocrininaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Isocrinidae
Life habit
upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Isocrinidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Isocrinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 218 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 244.4 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 112 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 19 of 112 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 112 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 37 of 112 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 22 of 112 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 24 of 112 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 112 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 112 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 112 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 112 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 112 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 112 occurrences249–241 Mya — about 18 occurrences241–233 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences233–225 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences209–201 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences201–194 Mya — about 5 occurrences194–186 Mya — about 24 occurrences186–178 Mya — about 8 occurrences178–170 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences170–162 Mya — about 21 occurrences162–154 Mya — about 21 occurrences154–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–138 Mya — about 1 occurrence138–130 Mya — about 6 occurrences114–106 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences241.464 Mya23.04 Mya249 Mya11 Mya

112 occurrences of Balanocrinus on record, most of them in the Early 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

112 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

23 formations

Qingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EMarnes de Latrecey — 47.98°N, 4.85°ECleveland Ironstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WBlassenstein — 48.08°N, 15.79°ELower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WWhitby Mudstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WSpisz Limestone — 49.44°N, 20.31°EDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EJubaila Lst. — 22.37°N, 46.53°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 22.43°N, 46.42°EEffinger Schichten — 47.26°N, 7.52°ERenggeri-Ton — 46.83°N, 5.97°EEffingerschichten — 47.27°N, 7.52°ERenggeri-Ton — 47.25°N, 7.02°ECouches à Spérites — 47.98°N, 4.85°EBaldonnel — 56.05°N, 123.01°WSina — 35.99°N, 60.85°ENayband — 31.15°N, 52.65°EGhalilah — 25.75°N, 56.02°EShenley Limestone — 51.92°N, 0.65°WTheoi Marls — 46.40°N, 0.06°WMiddle Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WDursztyn — 50.40°N, 19.06°E

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The named rock units Balanocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 63 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Balanocrinus and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Balanocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

823 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 96 sites for Balanocrinus, 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

34 references

Each of the 112 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. 22 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Balanocrinus

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Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Balanocrinus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itBalanocrininae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz 1847)