Halocrinites

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CupressocrinitidaePBDB
- 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 most 5.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Halocrinites on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
1 occurrences- Devonian100%
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 Halocrinites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Halocrinites and its relatives
DevonianWhere Halocrinites and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Antirotella1 site
- Bensbergia1 site
- Buechelia1 site
- Clathronema1 site
- Cupressocrinitidae1 site
- Devonorhineoderma1 site
- Devonozyga1 site
- Eomegalodon sp.1 site
- Euryzone1 site
- Loxonema1 site
- Murchisonia1 site
- Nodeuomphalus1 site
- Odontomaria1 site
- Paffrathopsis1 site
- Palaeozygopleura1 site
- Plagiothyra1 site
- Procupressocrinus1 site
- Serpulospira1 site
- Straparollus1 site
- Stringocephalus1 site
- Teutonophon1 site
- Turridina1 site
- Uncites (Uncites) gryphus1 site
- Uncites (Winterfeldia)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Halocrinites, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Halocrinites
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Halocrinites 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 itCupressocrinitidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Steininger 1831