Cryptoblastus melo

No picture of Cryptoblastus melo 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 melo, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CryptoblastusPBDB
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 13 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 346.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Devonian — about 0 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous359–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences356–356 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences355–355 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences355–355 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences354–354 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences353–353 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences352–352 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences350–350 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences349–349 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences348–348 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences348–348 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences347–347 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359.4 Mya346.2 Mya

1 occurrence of Cryptoblastus melo 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

1 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

1 formation

Burlington — 39.43°N, 91.04°W

Loading coastlines…

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

Cryptoblastus melo and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cryptoblastus melo and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

52 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cryptoblastus melo, 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

1 reference

Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Cryptoblastus melo 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 melo, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cryptoblastus melo 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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Owen and Shand 1850)