Cyathocrinites

Cyathocrinites is an extinct genus of crinoids that lived from the Early Silurian to the Late Permian in Europe and North America.

Cyathocrinites

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · 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
CyathocrinitidaePBDB
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 173 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Silurian — about 12 of 189 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 189 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 139 of 189 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 37 of 189 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 189 occurrences442–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–429 Mya — about 7 occurrences429–423 Mya — about 4 occurrences423–416 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences391–384 Mya — about 1 occurrence365–358 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences358–352 Mya — about 10 occurrences352–345 Mya — about 49 occurrences345–339 Mya — about 76 occurrences339–332 Mya — about 2 occurrences332–326 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences326–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300–293 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences293–287 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences268–261 Mya — about 3 occurrences261–255 Mya — about 29 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 4 occurrences432.9 Mya259.857 Mya442 Mya248 Mya

189 occurrences of Cyathocrinites 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

189 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

33 formations

Fort Payne — 36.71°N, 85.48°WFort Payne — 36.95°N, 85.01°WFort Payne — 36.92°N, 85.01°WFort Payne — 36.75°N, 85.15°WFort Payne — 36.78°N, 85.10°WFort Payne — 36.72°N, 85.36°WFort Payne — 36.54°N, 85.13°WFort Payne — 35.12°N, 87.44°WFort Payne — 36.56°N, 85.21°WFort Payne — 36.96°N, 85.07°WEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.25°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WMuldraugh — 40.06°N, 86.90°WBorden — 38.04°N, 85.72°WBorden — 38.08°N, 85.71°WBorden — 36.44°N, 88.06°WBorden — 37.70°N, 85.87°WBorden — 38.28°N, 83.38°WBorden — 37.96°N, 83.69°WFord — 54.88°N, 1.38°WFort Payne Chert — 36.92°N, 84.96°WFort Payne Chert — 36.95°N, 84.98°WFort Payne Chert — 36.86°N, 85.13°WFort Payne Chert — 36.71°N, 85.37°WWargal — 32.41°N, 72.10°EWargal — 32.53°N, 72.20°EWargal — 32.40°N, 72.15°EWargal — 32.25°N, 71.14°EWargal — 32.65°N, 72.58°EWargal — 32.55°N, 72.40°EZechstein — 51.28°N, 10.03°EZechstein — 50.65°N, 11.53°EZechstein — 50.83°N, 10.35°EZechstein — 50.89°N, 12.16°ECuyahoga — 41.25°N, 81.64°WCuyahoga — 41.02°N, 82.08°WSalem Limestone — 37.80°N, 85.80°WSalem Limestone — 37.26°N, 85.34°WSalem Limestone — 37.19°N, 85.37°WFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WSalthill Cap Beds — 53.87°N, 2.40°WCarwood — 38.50°N, 85.83°WCarwood — 38.32°N, 85.90°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 42.48°N, 90.87°WLaurel Limestone — 39.43°N, 85.63°WNew Providence Shale — 38.50°N, 85.92°WCelechovice Limestone — 49.57°N, 17.25°ENew Albany Shale — 38.48°N, 85.75°WRockford Limestone — 38.48°N, 85.75°WBanff — 52.25°N, 117.25°WRacine — 43.01°N, 88.38°WSlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EKlinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.18°E

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The named rock units Cyathocrinites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyathocrinites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cyathocrinites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,225 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 138 sites for Cyathocrinites, 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

37 references

Each of the 189 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. 25 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Cyathocrinites

Credit
James St. John
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
MGRRE
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

MorphoSource was 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 itCyathocrinitidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1821