Cryptoblastus

Cryptoblastus is a genus of extinct blastoids, a primitive group of echinoderms related to the modern sea lilies. Fossils are found in sedimentary rocks laid down in the Early Carboniferous period some 360 to 320 million years ago.

No picture of Cryptoblastus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cryptoblastus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 16 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 342.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 0 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 7 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferous359–359 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358–358 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences357–357 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences355–355 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences354–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences353–353 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences350–350 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences349–349 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences347–347 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences346–346 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences345–345 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences344–344 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359.4 Mya342.4 Mya

7 occurrences of Cryptoblastus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

7 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

3 formations

Burlington — 39.43°N, 91.04°WBurlington — 40.81°N, 91.11°WBurlington — 37.18°N, 93.28°WBanff — 52.25°N, 117.25°WBanff — 52.69°N, 117.52°WKeokuk — 40.06°N, 86.90°W

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

Cryptoblastus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cryptoblastus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

117 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Cryptoblastus, 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

5 references

Each of the 7 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 content0

No picture of Cryptoblastus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cryptoblastus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cryptoblastus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNodoblastidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Etherridge and Carpender 1886