Balanocrinus subsulcatus
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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 27 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Balanocrinus subsulcatus 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
17 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
- Lower Lias Formation · Lias Group2
- Ghalilah Formation · Elphinstone Group1
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The named rock units Balanocrinus subsulcatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Balanocrinus subsulcatus and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Balanocrinus subsulcatus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
116 taxa- Isocrinus (Chladocrinus) basaltiformis6 sites
- Amaltheocrinus hausmanni4 sites
- Chladocrinus krausei4 sites
- Chladocrinus oceani4 sites
- Balanocrinus moniliferus3 sites
- Cristellaria (Marginulina)3 sites
- Echinoidea3 sites
- Frondicularia3 sites
- Hungarella3 sites
- Isocrinus3 sites
- Palaeocoma milleri3 sites
- Sinosura brodiei3 sites
- Amaltheus margaritatus2 sites
- Amberleya2 sites
- Astarte2 sites
- Cincta2 sites
- Cyrtocrinida2 sites
- Eudesicrinus mayalis2 sites
- Falsopalmula2 sites
- Laevitrigonia troedssoni2 sites
- Lenticulina munsteri2 sites
- Lytoceratidae2 sites
- Mesophiomusium scabrum2 sites
- Modiolus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Balanocrinus subsulcatus, 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
4 references- Die Crinoiden aus dem Pliensbachium (mittlerer Lias) von Rottorf am Klei und Empelde (Süd-Niedersachsen)11
- Mikropaläontologische Untersuchungen an Ophiuren II. Die Ophiuren aus dem Lias (Pliensbachien-Toarcien) von Seewen (Kt. Solothurn)3
- The Stratigraphical Palaeontology, ammonites excluded, of the Stowell Park borehole2
- The Triassic-Jurassic boundary in the Elphinstone Group, western part of the Musandam Peninsula, United Arab Emirates1
Each of the 17 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 Balanocrinus subsulcatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Balanocrinus subsulcatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Balanocrinus subsulcatus 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 itBalanocrinus through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Munster 1831)