Costalocrinus rex

Costalocrinus rex

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CostalocrinusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cladida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cladida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cladida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At most 5.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 14 of 14 occurrencesDevonian388–388 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences382–382 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences388.4 Mya381.8 Mya

14 occurrences of Costalocrinus rex on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

14 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

4 formations

Ludlowville — 42.78°N, 78.86°WLudlowville — 42.77°N, 78.84°WLudlowville — 42.93°N, 78.14°WMoscow — 42.89°N, 78.52°WMoscow — 42.91°N, 78.38°WMoscow — 42.83°N, 77.88°WMoscow — 42.93°N, 78.14°WHungry Hollow — 43.07°N, 81.83°WHungry Hollow — 43.16°N, 81.86°WBeechwood — 38.25°N, 85.77°WBeechwood — 38.41°N, 85.75°W

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The named rock units Costalocrinus rex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Costalocrinus rex and its relatives

Devonian

Where Costalocrinus rex and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

4 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Costalocrinus rex, 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

1 reference

Each of the 14 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Costalocrinus rex

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Costalocrinus rex 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 itCostalocrinus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McIntosh 1984