Cupressocrinites

Cupressocrinites is an extinct genus of crinoids from the Middle to Late Devonian of Asia, Australia, Europe, Morocco, and North America.

Cupressocrinites

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArticuliformesPBDB
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 least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 28 occurrencesDevonian — about 28 of 28 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 28 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences415–412 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 1 occurrence410–408 Mya — about 1 occurrence408–406 Mya — about 1 occurrence406–404 Mya — about 1 occurrence404–402 Mya — about 1 occurrence402–400 Mya — about 1 occurrence400–398 Mya — about 2 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 2 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 2 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 1 occurrence391–389 Mya — about 1 occurrence389–387 Mya — about 2 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 2 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 2 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 2 occurrences366–364 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences364–362 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413.02 Mya365.2 Mya421 Mya358 Mya

28 occurrences of Cupressocrinites 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

28 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

15 formations

Akbasayskaya — 39.00°N, 69.00°EShubartau — 51.77°N, 59.10°ETurkparidinskaya — 39.00°N, 69.00°EAhbach — 50.32°N, 6.72°EAhbach — 50.33°N, 6.77°EDyer — 39.77°N, 107.35°WCelechovice Limestone — 49.57°N, 17.25°EShield Creek — 19.00°S, 145.00°EBurges — 19.00°S, 145.00°EPapilio — 19.00°S, 145.00°EBurdekin Limestone — 20.00°S, 146.00°ENizhnemagianskaya — 39.00°N, 69.00°EOrthocrinus — 51.12°N, 8.13°ESauma — 61.30°N, 60.13°EToshem — 61.30°N, 60.13°ENa Quan — 22.23°N, 106.18°E

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The named rock units Cupressocrinites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cupressocrinites and its relatives

Devonian

Where Cupressocrinites and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

260 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Cupressocrinites, 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

12 references

Each of the 28 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 Cupressocrinites

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Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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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 itArticuliformes through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goldfuss 1831