Embryocrinus variabilis

No picture of Embryocrinus variabilis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Embryocrinus variabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EmbryocrinusPBDB
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 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Permian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesPermian291–290 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences283–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283.3 Mya266.9 Mya290.6 Mya263.8 Mya

4 occurrences of Embryocrinus variabilis 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

4 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

Div'ya — 56.60°N, 57.80°EDiv'ya — 54.40°N, 53.90°EDjebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex — 33.41°N, 10.18°EBoets — 60.35°N, 56.55°E

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

Embryocrinus variabilis and its relatives

Permian

Where Embryocrinus variabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

85 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Embryocrinus variabilis, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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

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No picture of Embryocrinus variabilis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

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 itEmbryocrinus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arendt 1970