Delocrinus vulgatus

No picture of Delocrinus vulgatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Delocrinus vulgatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DelocrinusPBDB
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 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 287.6 Mya to 276.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 264.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 6 of 8 occurrencesPermian304–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences287.6 Mya276.8 Mya304.5 Mya264.1 Mya

8 occurrences of Delocrinus vulgatus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

8 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

3 formations

Kanwaka — 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°WDeer Creek — 40.40°N, 95.85°WStotler — 40.67°N, 95.83°W

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

Delocrinus vulgatus and its relatives

Permian

Where Delocrinus vulgatus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Delocrinus vulgatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 8 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 content0

No picture of Delocrinus vulgatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Delocrinus vulgatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Delocrinus vulgatus 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itDelocrinus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moore and Plummer 1940