Cyathocrinites asperrimus

Howell, Robert M · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- CyathocrinitesPBDB
- 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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 351.9 Mya and 339.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Cyathocrinites asperrimus 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
6 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Cyathocrinites asperrimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyathocrinites asperrimus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Cyathocrinites asperrimus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Agaricocrinus5 sites
- Alloprosallocrinus conicus5 sites
- Catillocrinus5 sites
- Cyathocrinites iowensis5 sites
- Eretmocrinus magnificus5 sites
- Halysiocrinus5 sites
- Barycrinus4 sites
- Barycrinus spurius4 sites
- Cyathocrinites multibrachiatus4 sites
- Platycrinites4 sites
- Synbathocrinus4 sites
- Actinocrinites3 sites
- Cyathocrinites farleyi3 sites
- Eretmocrinus ramulosus3 sites
- Gaulocrinus3 sites
- Magnuscrinus praegravis3 sites
- Paradichocrinus3 sites
- Uperocrinus nashvillae3 sites
- Uperocrinus robustus3 sites
- Abatocrinus2 sites
- Abatocrinus grandis2 sites
- Abatocrinus steropes2 sites
- Eucladocrinus2 sites
- Gilbertsocrinus tuberosus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Cyathocrinites asperrimus, 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
2 references- Crinoid assemblages from the Fort Payne Formation (late Osagean, early Viséan, Mississippian) from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama5
- Crinoids from the New Providence Shale member of the Borden Formation (Mississippian) in Kentucky and Indiana1
Each of the 6 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 Cyathocrinites asperrimus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Howell, Robert M
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cyathocrinites asperrimus 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.
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What may have been alongside itCyathocrinites through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Springer 1911