Eocrinidae

The Eocrinidae are a family of early echinoderms that contain the genus Gogia.

Eocrinidae

Stanton F. Fink · CC BY-SA 2.5 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GogiidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Eocrinoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Eocrinoidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Eocrinoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Eocrinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 512.1 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 516 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 54 of 56 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 2 of 56 occurrencesOrdovician517–515 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences515–513 Mya — about 2 occurrences513–511 Mya — about 2 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 4 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 8 occurrences507–505 Mya — about 13 occurrences505–503 Mya — about 7 occurrences503–501 Mya — about 6 occurrences501–499 Mya — about 6 occurrences499–497 Mya — about 5 occurrences497–495 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–487 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences487–485 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences512.1 Mya468 Mya517 Mya457 Mya

56 occurrences of Eocrinidae on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

56 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

24 formations

Jince — 49.00°N, 14.00°EJince — 49.82°N, 13.96°ELangston — 42.19°N, 112.25°WLangston — 41.60°N, 112.04°WLangston — 42.37°N, 111.51°WLangston — 41.97°N, 111.70°WWheeler Shale — 39.36°N, 111.59°WWheeler Shale — 39.20°N, 113.30°WWheeler Shale — 39.36°N, 113.28°WWheeler Shale — 39.29°N, 113.31°WBalang — 26.65°N, 107.95°EBalang — 27.17°N, 108.54°EBalang — 28.37°N, 109.34°EStephen — 51.40°N, 116.48°WStephen — 52.24°N, 117.28°WKaili — 27.00°N, 107.00°EKaili — 26.75°N, 108.41°EMurero — 41.17°N, 1.48°WMurero — 41.66°N, 1.77°WSarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°EChisholm Shale — 37.92°N, 114.45°WLead Bell Shale — 42.00°N, 112.00°WBurgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WFerrals — 43.40°N, 2.63°EBright Angel — 35.99°N, 113.82°WAlanis — 38.03°N, 5.72°WEl Gavilán — 29.28°N, 110.58°WBuelna — 29.28°N, 110.58°WBayhorse Red Siltstone — 44.25°N, 114.40°WMt. Whyte — 50.90°N, 115.62°WPtarmigan — 51.44°N, 116.30°WLatham — 34.55°N, 115.48°WLongha — 23.26°N, 105.54°ECarrara — 36.48°N, 116.73°WMarjum — 39.27°N, 113.31°WUte — 41.57°N, 112.05°W

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

Eocrinidae and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Eocrinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

700 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Eocrinidae, 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

30 references

Each of the 56 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. 17 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 Eocrinidae

Credit
Stanton F. Fink
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eocrinidae 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.

The description on this site

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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 itGogiida through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jaekel 1918