Delocrinus

Delocrinus is a genus of extinct crinoids, belonging to the family Catacrinidae. Specimens have been found in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Arizona, Iowa, Texas, Utah and Virginia.

Delocrinus

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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 70 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.4 Mya to 264.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 342.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 43 of 57 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 14 of 57 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 57 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342–338 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences338–335 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences326–323 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences323–319 Mya — about 2 occurrences319–316 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences316–313 Mya — about 1 occurrence313–310 Mya — about 4 occurrences310–307 Mya — about 4 occurrences307–304 Mya — about 26 occurrences304–301 Mya — about 3 occurrences301–297 Mya — about 3 occurrences297–294 Mya — about 4 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 2 occurrences291–288 Mya — about 2 occurrences288–285 Mya — about 2 occurrences285–282 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences278–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences272–269 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences269–266 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences266–263 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences263–260 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences260–256 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences256–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335.4 Mya264.9 Mya345 Mya250 Mya

57 occurrences of Delocrinus 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

57 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

23 formations

Stanton — 41.02°N, 96.19°WStanton — 37.22°N, 95.83°WStanton — 38.96°N, 94.97°WStanton — 37.26°N, 95.77°WStanton — 37.70°N, 95.68°WStanton — 37.13°N, 95.83°WBarnsdall — 36.41°N, 96.24°WBarnsdall — 36.92°N, 95.90°WBarnsdall — 36.91°N, 95.96°WBarnsdall — 36.75°N, 96.06°WWewoka — 34.90°N, 96.43°WWewoka — 34.95°N, 96.38°WWewoka — 35.02°N, 96.33°WKanwaka — 40.96°N, 95.85°WKanwaka — 40.93°N, 95.85°WKanwaka — 37.21°N, 96.30°WKanwaka — 41.15°N, 95.01°WKanwaka — 41.09°N, 95.81°WKanwaka — 41.01°N, 95.89°WWolf Mountain — 33.20°N, 97.83°WBird Spring — 36.55°N, 115.69°WBird Spring — 36.70°N, 114.42°WMorrow — 35.82°N, 95.27°WSte. Genevieve Limestone — 36.75°N, 82.25°WHonaker Trail — 38.58°N, 109.58°WWinchell — 31.84°N, 99.00°WRed Eagle Limestone — 36.70°N, 96.71°WGrenola — 36.70°N, 96.71°WBeattie — 37.14°N, 96.62°WNaco — 33.78°N, 110.33°WWinfield — 40.04°N, 96.78°WForaker — 40.12°N, 95.95°WCopacabana — 16.30°S, 68.49°WDeer Creek — 40.40°N, 95.85°WStotler — 40.67°N, 95.83°WFalls City — 40.07°N, 95.96°WOquirrh — 40.35°N, 111.60°WNellie Bly — 36.15°N, 96.25°WSaginaw — 42.75°N, 84.77°W

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The named rock units Delocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Delocrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Delocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

270 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Delocrinus, 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

19 references

Each of the 57 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. 7 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 Delocrinus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Delocrinus 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 itArticuliformes through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller and Gurley 1890