Echinoencrinites

Echinoencrinites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 15 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 478.8 Mya and 464.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 6 of 6 occurrencesOrdovician479–479 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences478–478 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences479.3 Mya463.8 Mya

6 occurrences of Echinoencrinites 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

6 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

2 formations

Holen Limestone — 58.55°N, 15.37°EDawan — 27.00°N, 101.00°E

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The named rock units Echinoencrinites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Echinoencrinites and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Echinoencrinites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Echinoencrinites, 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

3 references

Each of the 6 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 Echinoencrinites

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Meyer 1826