Guizhoueocrinus yui

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- GuizhoueocrinusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Eocrinoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Eocrinoidea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Eocrinoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Eocrinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 514.5 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Guizhoueocrinus yui on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
5 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Guizhoueocrinus yui has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Guizhoueocrinus yui and its relatives
CambrianWhere Guizhoueocrinus yui and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Redlichia (Pteroredlichia) chinensis3 sites
- Redlichia (Pteroredlichia) murakamii3 sites
- Alutella2 sites
- Arthricocephalus chauveaui2 sites
- Haplophrentis carinatus2 sites
- Probowmania2 sites
- Acrothele1 site
- Alutella elongta1 site
- Arthricocephalus (Arthricocephalites)1 site
- Bradoriida1 site
- Byronia1 site
- Changaspis elongata1 site
- Changaspis micropyge1 site
- Changaspis placenta1 site
- Comptaluta inflata1 site
- Comptaluta kailiensis1 site
- Duyunaspis duyunensis1 site
- Duyunaspis laevigatus1 site
- Linevitus lentiformis1 site
- Naraoia taijiangensis1 site
- Nisusia kotujensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Guizhoueocrinus yui, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Early Cambrian eocrinoids from Guizhou Province, South China4
- Discovery and significance of Naraoia from the Qiandongian (lower Cambrian) Balang Formation, Eastern Guizhou, South China1
Each of the 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Guizhoueocrinus yui
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- 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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What may have been alongside itGuizhoueocrinus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhao et al. 2007