Botryocrinus

Botryocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyathoformesPBDB
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 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 23 occurrencesSilurian — about 16 of 23 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 7 of 23 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 3 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 4 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 3 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 3 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 2 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences411–408 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 1 occurrence385–383 Mya — about 1 occurrence383–381 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences430.6 Mya387.95 Mya444 Mya381 Mya

23 occurrences of Botryocrinus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

23 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

14 formations

Waldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WHenryhouse — 34.37°N, 97.00°WBainbridge Limestone — 37.80°N, 90.05°WCedar Valley — 41.46°N, 90.72°WCedar Valley — 41.66°N, 91.53°WLudlowville — 42.72°N, 78.96°WSlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.18°EScotch Grove — 41.85°N, 90.18°WLaurel — 39.50°N, 85.47°WWayne — 36.08°N, 87.00°WOsgood Shale — 39.13°N, 85.30°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WReun Ar C'Hrank — 48.40°N, 4.48°WArmorique — 48.33°N, 4.45°W

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The named rock units Botryocrinus 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.

Botryocrinus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Botryocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

574 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Botryocrinus, 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

10 references

Each of the 23 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 Botryocrinus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCyathoformes through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Angelin 1878