Brahmacrinus

Brahmacrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlatycrinitidaePBDB
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 least 73 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 353.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 339.9 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous435–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–428 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences428–425 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences354–351 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences351–348 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences348–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences344–341 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences341–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426.7 Mya353.7 Mya435 Mya338 Mya

2 occurrences of Brahmacrinus 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

2 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

2 formations

Laurel Limestone — 39.43°N, 85.63°WFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°W

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

Brahmacrinus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Brahmacrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

121 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Brahmacrinus, 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

2 references

Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Brahmacrinus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Brahmacrinus 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 itPlatycrinitidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sollas 1900