Barycrinidae

Barycrinus Meek & Worthen, 1868, a relative of Barycrinidae — not Barycrinidae itself

Not Barycrinidae. This is Barycrinus Meek & Worthen, 1868, a relative — both are Barycrinidae.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 290.1 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 6 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 9 occurrencesPermian360–358 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358–355 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences353–351 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences351–348 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences348–346 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 1 occurrence344–341 Mya — about 1 occurrence341–339 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences296–293 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences293–291 Mya — about 2 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences351.9 Mya293.52 Mya360 Mya289 Mya

9 occurrences of Barycrinidae on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

9 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

5 formations

Muldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WMuldraugh — 40.06°N, 86.90°WCallytharra — 25.88°S, 115.48°EEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WBanff — 52.25°N, 117.25°WBorden — 38.28°N, 83.38°W

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The named rock units Barycrinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Barycrinidae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Barycrinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

215 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Barycrinidae, 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 9 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

Media content1

Picture of Barycrinus Meek & Worthen, 1868

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Barycrinidae 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 itCyathocrinitoidea through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jaekel 1918