Cymbiocrinus

Cymbiocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArticuliformesPBDB
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 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.9 Mya to 286 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 30 of 32 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 32 occurrencesPermian337–335 Mya — about 4 occurrences335–333 Mya — about 9 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 9 occurrences332–330 Mya — about 7 occurrences330–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330.3 Mya293.52 Mya337 Mya285 Mya

32 occurrences of Cymbiocrinus 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

32 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

4 formations

Bangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WOquirrh — 40.35°N, 111.58°WMonteagle Limestone — 34.63°N, 86.55°WNewman — 37.91°N, 83.86°W

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The named rock units Cymbiocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cymbiocrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cymbiocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

134 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Cymbiocrinus, 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

5 references

Each of the 32 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 Cymbiocrinus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
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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What may have been alongside itArticuliformes through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kirk 1944