Macrostylocrinus

Macrostylocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PatelliocrinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.6 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 5 of 77 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 72 of 77 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 77 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 1 occurrence443–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 2 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 1 occurrence440–439 Mya — about 1 occurrence439–437 Mya — about 5 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 5 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 5 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 5 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 5 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 8 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 8 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 6 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 6 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 6 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence424–422 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449.6 Mya425 Mya453.5 Mya419 Mya

77 occurrences of Macrostylocrinus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

77 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

21 formations

Scotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 41.90°N, 90.60°WScotch Grove — 41.92°N, 90.92°WScotch Grove — 42.12°N, 91.13°WScotch Grove — 42.48°N, 90.87°WScotch Grove — 41.85°N, 90.18°WScotch Grove — 42.17°N, 91.10°WHopkinton — 43.00°N, 91.00°WHopkinton — 42.50°N, 91.50°WHopkinton — 42.17°N, 90.58°WWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 43.01°N, 88.38°WRacine — 41.85°N, 87.65°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.06°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WRochester Shale — 43.17°N, 78.68°WHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WHenryhouse — 34.73°N, 96.63°WHenryhouse — 34.37°N, 97.00°WWayne — 36.08°N, 87.00°WWayne — 35.38°N, 88.00°WGasport Limstone — 43.20°N, 78.58°WLaurel Limestone — 39.43°N, 85.63°WLaurel — 39.50°N, 85.47°WSouth Threave — 55.29°N, 4.76°WGirardeau Limestone — 37.19°N, 89.45°WGirardeau Limestone — 37.33°N, 89.50°WHopkinton Dolomite — 42.43°N, 90.77°WCabot Head — 43.14°N, 79.38°WBighorn Dolomite — 44.75°N, 107.70°WPower Glen Shale — 43.00°N, 79.25°WRacine Dolomite — 41.57°N, 87.60°WSt. Clair Limestone — 35.77°N, 91.63°WRochester — 43.17°N, 79.03°WOsgood Shale — 39.13°N, 85.30°WRochester Shale — 43.03°N, 79.28°W

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The named rock units Macrostylocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Macrostylocrinus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Macrostylocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

702 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Macrostylocrinus, 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

13 references

Each of the 77 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Macrostylocrinus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Macrostylocrinus 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.