Balanocrinus gillieroni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BalanocrinusPBDB
- 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 most 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 137.05 Mya and 132.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Balanocrinus gillieroni 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
2 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Balanocrinus gillieroni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Balanocrinus gillieroni and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Balanocrinus gillieroni and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Balanocrinus subteres2 sites
- Apiocrinites1 site
- Comatulida1 site
- Isocrinus lissajouxi1 site
- Phyllocrinus belbekensis1 site
- Sclerocrinus strambergensis1 site
- Strambergocrinus remesi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Balanocrinus gillieroni, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Balanocrinus gillieroni 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 Balanocrinus gillieroni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Balanocrinus gillieroni 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 itBalanocrinus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Loriol 1879)