Erisocrinus typus

Erisocrinus typus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ErisocrinusPBDB
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 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 276.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 306 Mya to 264.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 6 occurrencesPermian307–305 Mya — about 1 occurrence305–304 Mya — about 2 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303.7 Mya276.8 Mya306.8 Mya264.1 Mya

6 occurrences of Erisocrinus typus 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

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

5 formations

Pottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WBond — 40.78°N, 88.68°WDeer Creek — 40.40°N, 95.85°WStotler — 40.67°N, 95.83°WBarnsdall — 36.92°N, 95.92°W

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The named rock units Erisocrinus typus 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.

Erisocrinus typus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Erisocrinus typus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

107 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Erisocrinus typus, 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

5 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. 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 typus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Erisocrinus typus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itErisocrinus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

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