Gazacrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GazacrinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
11 occurrences of Gazacrinus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
11 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
- Laurel Limestone Formation5
- Henryhouse Formation2
- Racine Formation2
- Rochester Shale Formation · Clinton Group1
- Gasport Limstone Formation · Clinton Group1
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The named rock units Gazacrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gazacrinus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Gazacrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
302 taxa- Eucalyptocrinites7 sites
- Macrostylocrinus6 sites
- Bryozoa5 sites
- Dimerocrinites5 sites
- Lecanocrinus5 sites
- Pisocrinus5 sites
- Calceocrinus4 sites
- Calliocrinus4 sites
- Caryocrinites4 sites
- Icthyocrinus4 sites
- Marsupiocrinus4 sites
- Merista4 sites
- Thalamocrinus4 sites
- Allocrinus3 sites
- Anastrophia3 sites
- Asaphocrinus3 sites
- Astraeospongium3 sites
- Atrypa3 sites
- Cheirurus3 sites
- Cyphocrinus3 sites
- Dalmanites3 sites
- Eodictyonella3 sites
- Gissocrinus3 sites
- Kosovopeltis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Gazacrinus, 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
3 references- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America9
- Wenlockian fossil communities in New York State and adjacent areas: Paleontology and Paleoecology1
- Hunton Group of the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma:1
Each of the 11 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Gazacrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Gazacrinus 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 itGazacrinidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1892