Hypselocrinus

Hypselocrinus

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
ScytalocrinidaePBDB
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 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 365.2 Mya to 286 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 22 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 19 of 22 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 22 occurrencesPermian367–364 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences364–361 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences361–359 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences359–356 Mya — about 2 occurrences356–353 Mya — about 2 occurrences353–350 Mya — about 1 occurrence350–348 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences348–345 Mya — about 3 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 4 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 3 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences326–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–320 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences315–312 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences312–309 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences309–306 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences304–301 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences301–298 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences298–295 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences293–290 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences290–287 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences287–284 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358.86 Mya323.4 Mya367 Mya284 Mya

22 occurrences of Hypselocrinus 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

22 occurrences

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

9 formations

Edwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.25°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WOquirrh — 40.33°N, 111.60°WMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WMuldraugh — 40.06°N, 86.90°WWassonville — 41.20°N, 92.10°WWassonville — 41.37°N, 91.95°WDyer — 39.77°N, 107.35°WMcCraney Limestone — 39.76°N, 91.26°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.83°N, 86.62°WBorden — 37.70°N, 85.87°WMaynes Creek — 42.00°N, 92.78°W

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The named rock units Hypselocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Hypselocrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Hypselocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

271 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Hypselocrinus, 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

10 references

Each of the 22 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 Hypselocrinus

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
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 itScytalocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kirk 1940