Cyathocrinitidae

Cyathocrinitidae is an extinct family of crinoids belonging to the order Cladida.

Cyathocrinitidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyathocrinitoideaPBDB
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 443.1 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 219 occurrencesSilurian — about 33 of 219 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 219 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 141 of 219 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 42 of 219 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 219 occurrences447–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–434 Mya — about 3 occurrences434–427 Mya — about 19 occurrences427–420 Mya — about 10 occurrences420–414 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences414–407 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences407–401 Mya — about 1 occurrence401–394 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences394–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387–381 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences361–354 Mya — about 7 occurrences354–348 Mya — about 26 occurrences348–341 Mya — about 91 occurrences341–334 Mya — about 14 occurrences334–328 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences328–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–308 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences308–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–288 Mya — about 1 occurrence288–281 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences281–275 Mya — about 2 occurrences275–268 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences268–261 Mya — about 3 occurrences261–255 Mya — about 30 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 4 occurrences432.9 Mya259.857 Mya447 Mya248 Mya

219 occurrences of Cyathocrinitidae 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

219 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

47 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°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 — 38.29°N, 83.32°WBorden — 38.28°N, 83.38°WBorden — 37.96°N, 83.69°WMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WMuldraugh — 40.06°N, 86.90°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°ELaurel Limestone — 39.43°N, 85.63°WZechstein — 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°WHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WHenryhouse — 34.73°N, 96.63°WHenryhouse — 34.37°N, 97.00°WSalem Limestone — 37.80°N, 85.80°WSalem Limestone — 37.26°N, 85.34°WSalem Limestone — 37.19°N, 85.37°WSlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EFeltrim — 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°WWabash — 40.42°N, 85.80°WWabash — 40.88°N, 85.50°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 43.01°N, 88.38°WKlinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.18°EScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 42.48°N, 90.87°WWandagee — 23.73°S, 114.42°ENew Providence Shale — 38.50°N, 85.92°WCelechovice Limestone — 49.57°N, 17.25°E

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The named rock units Cyathocrinitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyathocrinitidae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cyathocrinitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,728 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 160 sites for Cyathocrinitidae, 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

49 references

Each of the 219 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. 37 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 content1

Picture of Cyathocrinitidae

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

No 3D scan of Cyathocrinitidae 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.

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 itCyathocrinitoidea through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roemer 1854