Eretmocrinus

Eretmocrinus is an extinct genus of crinoids.

Eretmocrinus

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
BatocrinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Monobathrida
Life habit
upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Monobathrida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Monobathrida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 318.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 312.8 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 79 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 79 of 79 occurrencesCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences357–355 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 1 occurrence352–350 Mya — about 8 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 8 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 8 occurrences347–345 Mya — about 12 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 13 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 10 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 7 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 3 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences325–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351.9 Mya318.6 Mya359.8 Mya311.9 Mya

79 occurrences of Eretmocrinus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

79 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

11 formations

Fort Payne — 36.93°N, 84.97°WFort Payne — 36.71°N, 85.48°WFort Payne — 36.95°N, 85.01°WFort Payne — 36.75°N, 85.15°WFort Payne — 36.78°N, 85.10°WFort Payne — 36.72°N, 85.36°WFort Payne — 36.54°N, 85.13°WFort Payne — 35.12°N, 87.44°WFort Payne — 36.56°N, 85.21°WFort Payne — 36.88°N, 85.06°WFort Payne — 36.96°N, 85.07°WEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.25°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WFort Payne Chert — 36.92°N, 84.96°WFort Payne Chert — 36.95°N, 84.98°WFort Payne Chert — 36.86°N, 85.13°WFort Payne Chert — 36.71°N, 85.37°WMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WCarwood — 38.50°N, 85.83°WCarwood — 38.32°N, 85.90°WBorden — 38.08°N, 85.71°WBorden — 38.28°N, 83.38°WBorden — 38.04°N, 83.53°WBorden — 37.94°N, 83.62°WSalem Limestone — 37.80°N, 85.80°WSalem Limestone — 37.26°N, 85.34°WSalem Limestone — 37.18°N, 85.32°WLake Valley — 32.93°N, 105.90°WLake Valley — 32.84°N, 107.67°WNew Providence Shale — 38.50°N, 85.92°WBanff — 52.25°N, 117.25°WMinturn — 39.92°N, 106.72°W

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The named rock units Eretmocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eretmocrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Eretmocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

391 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 64 sites for Eretmocrinus, 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

14 references

Each of the 79 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. 2 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 content2

Picture of Eretmocrinus

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
MGRRE
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lyon and Casseday 1859