Cyclocrinites dactioloides

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
- CyclocrinitesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cyclocriniteae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cyclocriniteae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cyclocriniteae
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Cyclocrinites dactioloides on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
4 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cyclocrinites dactioloides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyclocrinites dactioloides and its relatives
SilurianWhere Cyclocrinites dactioloides and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Harpidium (Isovella)4 sites
- Macrostylocrinus4 sites
- Meristina4 sites
- Orthida4 sites
- Carpocrinus3 sites
- Cyclonema3 sites
- Dimerocrinites3 sites
- Eodictyonella3 sites
- Favosites3 sites
- Ferganella3 sites
- Gomphocystites3 sites
- Howellella3 sites
- Isorthis3 sites
- Linoporella3 sites
- Murchisonioidea3 sites
- Nautiloidea3 sites
- Platyceras3 sites
- Platystrophia biforatus3 sites
- Protomegastrophia3 sites
- Stenopareia3 sites
- Straparollus3 sites
- Stricklandia3 sites
- Theleproktocrinus3 sites
- Whitfieldella3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cyclocrinites dactioloides, 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- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America2
- Silurian brachiopod and related benthic communities from carbonate platform and mound environments of Iowa and surrounding areas2
Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Cyclocrinites dactioloides
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- James St. John
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cyclocrinites dactioloides 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 itCyclocrinites through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Owen 1844)