Cincinnaticrinus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CincinnaticrininaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 8.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
241 occurrences of Cincinnaticrinus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
241 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
28 formations
- Kope Formation70
- Waynesville Formation43
- Sunset Formation24
- Oregonia Formation21
- Denley Limestone Formation · Lower Trenton Group18
- Corryville Formation10
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The named rock units Cincinnaticrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed.
Cincinnaticrinus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cincinnaticrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
366 taxa- Trepostomata126 sites
- Rafinesquina alternata121 sites
- Zygospira modesta92 sites
- Isotelus79 sites
- Bryozoa74 sites
- Flexicalymene71 sites
- Ambonychia60 sites
- Flexicalymene meeki52 sites
- Glyptocrinus52 sites
- Platystrophia40 sites
- Ectenocrinus37 sites
- Dalmanella29 sites
- Cincinnetina meeki25 sites
- Parvohallopora ramosa25 sites
- Hebertella occidentalis24 sites
- Modiomorphidae24 sites
- Merocrinus20 sites
- Iocrinus19 sites
- Prasopora18 sites
- Stictopora18 sites
- Cincinnetina multisecta17 sites
- Cryptostomata17 sites
- Cyclonema17 sites
- Paucicrura rogata17 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 199 sites for Cincinnaticrinus, 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
20 references- Gradient ecology of a biotic invasion: biofacies of the type Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati, Ohio region, USA158
- Analysis of sample-level properties along a paleoenvironmental gradient: the behavior of evenness as a function of sample size40
- R. Titus unpublished collections11
- Fossil Communities of the Middle Trenton Group (Ordovician) of New York State8
- Upper Mississippi Valley Champlainian and Cincinnatian echinoderms4
- Fossil communities of the lower Trenton Group (Middle Ordovician) of central and northwestern New York State4
- Disparid and hybocrinid crinoids (Echinodermata) from the Upper Ordovician (lower Katian) Brechin Lagerstätte of Ontario3
- A crinoid fauna and a new species of Pycnocrinus from the Martinsburg Formation (Upper Ordovician), lower Hudson Valley, New York1
- An Upper Ordovician faunal assemblage from the Neuville Formation of Québec, including an exceptionally preserved soft bodied sea anemone, Paleocerianthus neuvillii n. sp1
- Deepwater occurrence of a new Glyptocrinus (Crinoidea, Camerata) from the Late Ordovician of southwestern Ohio and northern Kentucky: revision of crinoid paleocommunity composition1
- Cheirocystis fultonensis, a new glyptocystitoid rhombiferan from the Upper Ordovician of the Cincinnati Arch - comments on cheirorinid ontogeny1
- The Walcott-Rust Quarry: Middle Ordovician Trilobite Konservat-Lagerstätten1
Each of the 241 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. 8 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 content1

Picture of Cincinnaticrinus
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- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cincinnaticrinus 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 itCincinnaticrininae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Warn and Strimple 1977