Erisocrinus

Erisocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ErisocrinidaePBDB
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 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 24 of 37 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 13 of 37 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 37 occurrences325–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences322–320 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 10 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 13 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences298–295 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences293–290 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 1 occurrence288–285 Mya — about 1 occurrence285–283 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences283–280 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences278–275 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences273–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences263–260 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence258–255 Mya — about 2 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 1 occurrence253–250 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318.6 Mya259.857 Mya325 Mya250 Mya

37 occurrences of Erisocrinus 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

37 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

14 formations

Stanton — 41.02°N, 96.19°WStanton — 37.22°N, 95.83°WStanton — 38.96°N, 94.97°WStanton — 37.26°N, 95.77°WStanton — 37.70°N, 95.68°WStanton — 37.13°N, 95.83°WBarnsdall — 36.41°N, 96.24°WBarnsdall — 36.92°N, 95.90°WBarnsdall — 36.91°N, 95.96°WBarnsdall — 36.75°N, 96.06°WBird Spring — 36.70°N, 114.42°WForaker Limestone — 41.05°N, 95.72°WForaker Limestone — 40.18°N, 95.94°WPottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WBond — 40.78°N, 88.68°WCibolo — 29.85°N, 104.32°WWolf Mountain — 33.20°N, 97.83°WAkhura — 38.97°N, 45.53°EDeer Creek — 40.40°N, 95.85°WStotler — 40.67°N, 95.83°WBloyd — 34.57°N, 96.59°WTaiyuan — 36.08°N, 114.11°EJulfa — 38.98°N, 45.53°E

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The named rock units Erisocrinus 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.

Erisocrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Erisocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

256 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Erisocrinus, 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

16 references

Each of the 37 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. 4 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 Erisocrinus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Erisocrinus 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 itErisocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek and Worthen 1865