Galateacrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArticuliformesPBDB
- 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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 306 Mya to 287.6 Mya.
14 occurrences of Galateacrinus 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
14 occurrences- Carboniferous88%
- Permian12%
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
- Stanton Formation · Lansing Group7
- Barnsdall Formation · Lansing Group4
- Bond Formation · McLeansboro Group1
- Callytharra Formation1
- Deer Creek Limestone Formation · Shawnee Group1
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The named rock units Galateacrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Galateacrinus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Galateacrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Apographiocrinus10 sites
- Delocrinus10 sites
- Erisocrinus10 sites
- Cibolocrinus9 sites
- Cymbiocrinidae9 sites
- Exocrinus9 sites
- Exoriocrinus9 sites
- Kallimorphocrinus9 sites
- Scytalocrinidae9 sites
- Stellarocrinus9 sites
- Elibatocrinus8 sites
- Paramphicrinus8 sites
- Pirasocrinidae8 sites
- Cromyocrinidae7 sites
- Euonychocrinus7 sites
- Stenopecrinidae indet.7 sites
- Ampelocrinidae6 sites
- Laudonocrinidae6 sites
- Lecythiocrinus5 sites
- Glaukosocrinus4 sites
- Graffhamicrinus4 sites
- Plummericrinus4 sites
- Ulocrinus4 sites
- Apographiocrinus typicalis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Galateacrinus, 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- Filtration models, guilds, and biofacies: crinoid paleoecology of the Stanton Formation (Upper Pennsylvanian), Midcontinent, North America10
- Genus-level taphonomic variation within cladid crinoids from the upper Pennsylvanian Barnsdall Formation, Northeastern Oklahoma1
- Taphonomic Analysis and Systematic Descriptions of Some Late Pennsylvanian and Early Permian Crinoids from Southeastern Nebraska, Eastern Kansas and Southwestern Iowa1
- Permian echinoderms from Western Australia1
- Crinoids of the LaSalle Limestone (Pennsylvanian) of Illinois1
Each of the 14 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 Galateacrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moore 1940