Lecythiocrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CodiacrininaePBDB
- 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 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 306 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 303.7 Mya.
9 occurrences of Lecythiocrinus 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
9 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Stanton Formation · Lansing Group5
- Barnsdall Formation · Lansing Group1
- Perth Limestone Formation1
- Wolf Mountain Formation1
- Morrow Formation1
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The named rock units Lecythiocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lecythiocrinus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Lecythiocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Cibolocrinus7 sites
- Delocrinus7 sites
- Erisocrinus7 sites
- Apographiocrinus6 sites
- Elibatocrinus6 sites
- Exoriocrinus6 sites
- Kallimorphocrinus6 sites
- Cymbiocrinidae5 sites
- Euonychocrinus5 sites
- Galateacrinus5 sites
- Laudonocrinidae5 sites
- Paramphicrinus5 sites
- Pirasocrinidae5 sites
- Scytalocrinidae5 sites
- Stellarocrinus5 sites
- Stenopecrinidae indet.5 sites
- Exocrinus4 sites
- Ampelocrinidae3 sites
- Cromyocrinidae3 sites
- Ulocrinus3 sites
- Glaukosocrinus2 sites
- Graphiocrinidae2 sites
- Plummericrinus2 sites
- Alcimocrinus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Lecythiocrinus, 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
4 references- Filtration models, guilds, and biofacies: crinoid paleoecology of the Stanton Formation (Upper Pennsylvanian), Midcontinent, North America6
- Microcrinoids from the Middle Pennsylvanian of Indiana1
- Lower Pennsylvanian (Morrowan) crinoids from Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas1
- Pennsylvanian crinoids from Lake Bridgeport, Texas1
Each of the 9 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 Lecythiocrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lecythiocrinus 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 itCodiacrininae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. White 1880