Heliocrinus sp.
No picture of Heliocrinus sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Heliocrinus sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 468 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
10 occurrences of Heliocrinus sp. on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
10 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Heliocrinus sp. 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.
Heliocrinus sp. and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Heliocrinus sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Illaenus3 sites
- Orthis3 sites
- Orthoceras3 sites
- Calymene2 sites
- Heliocrinus fiscella2 sites
- Hyolithes2 sites
- Ovocystis mansuyi2 sites
- Primitia2 sites
- Sphaeronites2 sites
- Trizonium2 sites
- ? Carynocrinus cf. aurora1 site
- ? Heliocrinus sp.1 site
- ? Protocrinus sp.1 site
- ? Pyrocystis orientalis1 site
- Ampyx1 site
- Aparchites1 site
- Arthrorhachis1 site
- Basilicus (Basiliella)1 site
- Cameroceras1 site
- Carycosystis bicompressa1 site
- Cheirurus1 site
- Corrugatagnostus1 site
- Cruziana1 site
- Cyuocyclicus sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Heliocrinus sp., 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- The Lower Palaeozoic fossils of the Northern Shan States, Burma. With a section of Ordovician cystidea by F. A. Bather [q.v.]7
- Stratigraphic Summary of the Southwestern Region of China2
- Regional stratigraphic data of Southwest China, Yunnan Province1
Each of the 10 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
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No picture of Heliocrinus sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Heliocrinus sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Heliocrinus sp. 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.