Cyclocrinites

Cyclocrinites

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/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
CyclocriniteaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cyclocriniteae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cyclocriniteae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cyclocriniteae

Time the record covers

At least 398 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.3 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 56 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 79 occurrencesOrdovician — about 57 of 79 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 21 of 79 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 79 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 79 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 79 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 79 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 79 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 79 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 79 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 79 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 79 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 79 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 79 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 79 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 79 occurrences495–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–466 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences466–451 Mya — about 40 occurrences451–436 Mya — about 29 occurrences436–421 Mya — about 7 occurrences421–406 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence457.3 Mya59.24 Mya495 Mya47 Mya

79 occurrences of Cyclocrinites on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

79 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

27 formations

Solvik — 59.92°N, 10.75°ESolvik — 60.17°N, 10.30°ESolvik — 59.83°N, 10.43°ECliffield — 37.25°N, 81.27°WCliffield — 37.08°N, 81.55°WCliffield — 37.00°N, 81.00°WCliffield — 37.10°N, 81.34°WEllis Bay — 49.82°N, 64.35°WEllis Bay — 49.42°N, 62.25°WHopkinton — 43.00°N, 91.00°WHopkinton — 42.50°N, 91.50°WHopkinton — 42.17°N, 90.58°WAluvere — 59.34°N, 27.41°EAluvere — 59.30°N, 27.51°EAluvere — 59.37°N, 24.50°EAluvere — 59.31°N, 24.31°EFuruberg — 60.63°N, 10.60°EFuruberg — 60.73°N, 10.70°EKahula — 59.26°N, 27.40°EKahula — 59.27°N, 23.75°EMadise — 59.26°N, 27.40°EMadise — 59.31°N, 24.31°EMadise — 59.31°N, 24.43°EPagari — 59.26°N, 27.40°EPagari — 59.31°N, 24.31°EPagari — 59.31°N, 24.43°EBad Cache Rapids — 68.90°N, 82.03°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.71°N, 81.94°WAnderken — 45.08°N, 73.38°EAnderken — 43.88°N, 75.55°EHaljala Erratics — 52.52°N, 6.08°ERägavere — 58.86°N, 24.08°ERägavere — 58.74°N, 24.08°EWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLiberty — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WElkhorn — 39.00°N, 84.00°WArnheim — 39.00°N, 84.00°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WRagavere — 59.00°N, 26.00°EEdinburg — 38.00°N, 79.00°WAberdeen Lake — 64.90°N, 98.73°WJohvi — 59.34°N, 27.41°EChatham Hill — 36.92°N, 81.52°W

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The named rock units Cyclocrinites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyclocrinites and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cyclocrinites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

704 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Cyclocrinites, 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

26 references

Each of the 79 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. 14 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 Cyclocrinites

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

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

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eichwald 1840