Calliocrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EucalyptocrinitidaePBDB
- 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 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 422.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
24 occurrences of Calliocrinus 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
24 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
7 formations
- Racine Formation9
- Scotch Grove Formation5
- Laurel Limestone Formation3
- Gasport Limstone Formation · Clinton Group1
- Gower Formation1
- Louisville Formation1
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The named rock units Calliocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Calliocrinus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Calliocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
353 taxa- Eucalyptocrinites18 sites
- Caryocrinites15 sites
- Dimerocrinites15 sites
- Periechocrinus14 sites
- Gastropoda12 sites
- Siphonocrinus12 sites
- Lecanocrinus11 sites
- Atrypa10 sites
- Bumastus10 sites
- Crotalocrinites10 sites
- Macrostylocrinus10 sites
- Bryozoa9 sites
- Marsupiocrinus9 sites
- Rugosa9 sites
- Favosites8 sites
- Halysites8 sites
- Isorthis8 sites
- Nautiloidea8 sites
- Dolerorthis7 sites
- Eospirifer7 sites
- Ferganella7 sites
- Hedeina7 sites
- Platyceras7 sites
- Plectatrypa7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Calliocrinus, 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- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America18
- The Silurian (Wenlockian) reef fauna of Southeastern Wisconsin3
- Silurian brachiopod and related benthic communities from carbonate platform and mound environments of Iowa and surrounding areas2
- Stratigraphy, structure, and zonation of large Silurian reef at Delphi, Indiana1
Each of the 24 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 Calliocrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Calliocrinus 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 itEucalyptocrinitidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Orbigny 1850