Caryocrinites

Caryocrinites

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CaryocrinitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 14 of 86 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 72 of 86 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 86 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 4 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 4 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 3 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 6 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 6 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 6 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 10 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 13 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 9 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 9 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 4 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 3 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 2 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461 Mya425 Mya469 Mya419 Mya

86 occurrences of Caryocrinites 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

86 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

30 formations

Scotch Grove — 42.17°N, 91.11°WScotch Grove — 41.88°N, 90.55°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 90.50°WScotch Grove — 41.92°N, 90.92°WScotch Grove — 41.85°N, 90.18°WScotch Grove — 42.10°N, 91.28°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WRacine — 43.01°N, 88.38°WRacine — 42.00°N, 88.00°WRacine — 41.85°N, 87.65°WJupiter — 49.47°N, 63.62°WJupiter — 49.38°N, 63.60°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WRochester Shale — 43.17°N, 78.68°WOsgood Shale — 39.13°N, 85.30°WOsgood Shale — 39.00°N, 85.00°WLaurel Limestone — 39.43°N, 85.63°WOsgood — 39.07°N, 85.25°WWayne — 36.08°N, 87.00°WWayne — 35.38°N, 88.00°WSlade and Redhill Mudstone — 51.80°N, 4.55°WSlade and Redhill Mudstone — 51.79°N, 4.49°WCystoid Limestone — 41.15°N, 1.20°WCystoid Limestone — 41.17°N, 1.15°WRochester — 43.17°N, 79.03°WRochester — 43.16°N, 79.05°WBainbridge Limestone — 38.22°N, 90.67°WBainbridge Limestone — 37.80°N, 90.05°WJonstorp — 61.00°N, 15.13°ESholeshook — 51.80°N, 4.53°WLockport — 43.15°N, 77.62°WLouisville Limestone — 40.55°N, 84.57°WDolhir — 52.93°N, 3.18°WIrondequoit Limestone — 43.21°N, 77.58°WGasport Limestone — 43.20°N, 78.58°WGasport Limstone — 43.20°N, 78.58°WGower — 41.51°N, 90.58°WLouisville — 40.58°N, 86.67°WRacine Dolomite — 41.57°N, 87.60°WHopkinton — 42.50°N, 91.50°W

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The named rock units Caryocrinites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Caryocrinites and its relatives

Silurian

Where Caryocrinites and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

876 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 69 sites for Caryocrinites, 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

17 references

Each of the 86 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Caryocrinites

Credit
James St. John
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itCaryocrinitidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Say 1825