Clematocrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HapalocrinidaePBDB
- 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 least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 413.02 Mya.
4 occurrences of Clematocrinus 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
- Clonbinane Sandstone Formation1
- Damery Beds Formation · Tortworth Group1
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The named rock units Clematocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Clematocrinus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Clematocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Antihomocrinus2 sites
- Dendrocrinus2 sites
- Alisocrinus1 site
- Codiacrinus1 site
- Ctenocrinus1 site
- Darraghcrinus tomi1 site
- Dictenocrinus1 site
- Dimerocrinites1 site
- Duncanicrinus calvariolus1 site
- Eucrinus1 site
- Eudimerocrinus1 site
- Frankocrinus enidae1 site
- Kroppocrinus1 site
- Nassoviocrinus corcorani1 site
- Nexocrinus1 site
- Oehlerticrinus1 site
- Phimocrinus1 site
- Plicodendrocrinus1 site
- Shintocrinus cometensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Clematocrinus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Silurian and Devonian crinoids from central Victoria3
- New crinoids (Echinodermata) from the Llandovery (Lower Silurian) of the British Isles1
Each of the 4 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 Clematocrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Clematocrinus 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 itHapalocrinidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jaekel 1898