Cyathocrinites iowensis

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 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 339.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
24 occurrences of Cyathocrinites iowensis 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
24 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Cyathocrinites iowensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyathocrinites iowensis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Cyathocrinites iowensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
91 taxa- Agaricocrinus22 sites
- Alloprosallocrinus conicus21 sites
- Eretmocrinus magnificus20 sites
- Platycrinites20 sites
- Synbathocrinus20 sites
- Barycrinus18 sites
- Halysiocrinus17 sites
- Actinocrinites16 sites
- Catillocrinus16 sites
- Magnuscrinus praegravis15 sites
- Macrocrinus14 sites
- Eucladocrinus13 sites
- Gilbertsocrinus tuberosus13 sites
- Uperocrinus nashvillae13 sites
- Abatocrinus grandis12 sites
- Barycrinus spurius12 sites
- Uperocrinus robustus11 sites
- Eretmocrinus ramulosus10 sites
- Thinocrinus10 sites
- Barycrinus rhombiferus8 sites
- Xyeleblastus magnificus8 sites
- Adinocrinus7 sites
- Cyathocrinites multibrachiatus7 sites
- Deliablastus cumberlandensis7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Cyathocrinites iowensis, 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
3 references- Crinoid assemblages from the Fort Payne Formation (late Osagean, early Viséan, Mississippian) from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama21
- Crinoids from the Nada Member of the Borden Formation (Lower Mississippian) in eastern Kentucky2
- Crinoids from the Muldraugh Member of the Borden Formation in north-central Kentucky (Echinodermata, Lower Mississippian)1
Each of the 24 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Cyathocrinites iowensis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Howell, Robert M
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cyathocrinites iowensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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. Owen and Shumard 1850