Calycocrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CalycocrinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Sagenocrinida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Sagenocrinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Sagenocrinida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 35 million years on record.
The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
20 occurrences of Calycocrinus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
20 occurrences- Carboniferous20%
- Permian80%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Calycocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Calycocrinus and its relatives
PermianWhere Calycocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
284 taxa- Bolbocrinus waldthauseniae2 sites
- Cadocrinus variabilis2 sites
- Eutelecrinus poculiformis2 sites
- Hypocrinus schneideri2 sites
- Metasycocrinus piriformis2 sites
- Oklahomacrinus2 sites
- Paracatillocrinus granulatus2 sites
- Paraplasocrinus transitorius2 sites
- Prophyllocrinus dentatus2 sites
- Thetidicrinus piriformis2 sites
- Acariaiocrinus clavulus1 site
- Actinocrinites timoricus1 site
- Actinocrinitidae1 site
- Alcimocrinus1 site
- Allosycocrinus grandis1 site
- Allosycocrinus medius1 site
- Allosycocrinus pusillus1 site
- Alphachoristites1 site
- Ananias conglobata1 site
- Ancistrocrinus vermistriatus1 site
- Angioblastus ellesmerensis1 site
- Anthracospirifer occiduus1 site
- Antiquatonia1 site
- Antronaria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Calycocrinus, 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- Die permischen Krinoiden von Timor15
- Pennsylvanian crinoids from Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada2
- Lower Pennsylvanian (Morrowan) crinoids from Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas2
- New Permian echinoderms from northeastern Oman have connections with Tethyan echinoderm faunas from West Timor, Western Australia, and Russia1
Each of the 20 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 Calycocrinus
- 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 Calycocrinus 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 itCalycocrinidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.