Cenocrinus asterius

Etnoyer et al. (2022) · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- CenocrinusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Isselicrinidae
- Life habit
- upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Isselicrinidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Isselicrinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 1.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1.8 Mya and 774 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cenocrinus asterius on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
1 formation
- Manchioneal Formation · Coastal Group1
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The named rock units Cenocrinus asterius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cenocrinus asterius and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Cenocrinus asterius and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Cenocrinus asterius, so there is nothing to compare it with.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Cenocrinus asterius
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Etnoyer et al. (2022)
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cenocrinus asterius was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCenocrinus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linne 1767)