Blairocrinus macurdai
No picture of Blairocrinus macurdai 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 Blairocrinus macurdai, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BlairocrinusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Monobathrida
- Life habit
- upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Monobathrida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Monobathrida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 351.9 Mya and 342.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Blairocrinus macurdai 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
8 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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 Blairocrinus macurdai has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Blairocrinus macurdai and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Blairocrinus macurdai and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Agaricocrinus planoconvexus7 sites
- Cribanocrinus urceolatus7 sites
- Nunnacrinus dalyanus7 sites
- Plemnocrinus bullatus7 sites
- Plemnocrinus homalus7 sites
- Physetocrinus lobatus6 sites
- Steganocrinus pentagonus6 sites
- Ancalocrinus spinobrachiatus5 sites
- Aryballocrinus whitei5 sites
- Physetocrinus copei5 sites
- Displodocrinus divergens4 sites
- Elegantocrinus4 sites
- Iotacrinus novamexicanus4 sites
- Platycrinites peculiaris4 sites
- Amphoracrinus rupinus3 sites
- Cusacrinus tenuisculptus3 sites
- Platycrinites parvinodus3 sites
- Pleurocrinus quinquenodus3 sites
- Rhodocrinites tuberculatus3 sites
- Actinocrinus tenuidiscus2 sites
- Cactocrinus proboscidialis2 sites
- Collicrinus shumardi2 sites
- Dichocrinus conus2 sites
- Eucladocrinus pleurovimenus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Blairocrinus macurdai, 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
1 referenceEach of the 8 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 Blairocrinus macurdai 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 Blairocrinus macurdai, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Blairocrinus macurdai 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 itBlairocrinus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rhenberg and Kammer 2013