Dystactocrinus constrictus

Dystactocrinus constrictus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DystactocrinusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Disparida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Disparida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Disparida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At most 600 thousand years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.2 Mya and 449.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Dystactocrinus constrictus 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

1 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

1 formation

Fairview — 39.11°N, 84.51°W

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

Dystactocrinus constrictus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Dystactocrinus constrictus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dystactocrinus constrictus, 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 1 occurrence 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 Dystactocrinus constrictus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Dystactocrinus constrictus 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 itDystactocrinus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1871