Megistocrinus

Megistocrinus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 346.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 339.9 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 17 occurrencesDevonian — about 14 of 17 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 3 of 17 occurrencesCarboniferous421–418 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences416–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–407 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences405–402 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences402–399 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences399–396 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences394–391 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences391–388 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences388–385 Mya — about 5 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 5 occurrences383–380 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences380–377 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences377–374 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences374–371 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences371–369 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences369–366 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences366–363 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences363–360 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences358–355 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences355–352 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences352–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences347–344 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences344–341 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences341–338 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393.47 Mya346.7 Mya421 Mya338 Mya

17 occurrences of Megistocrinus 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

17 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

Ludlowville — 42.83°N, 77.84°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.89°N, 77.36°WLittle Cedar — 42.00°N, 91.00°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.15°WMoscow — 42.89°N, 77.28°WSappington — 45.89°N, 111.42°WSappington — 45.91°N, 110.98°WRanft Mudstone — 42.12°S, 171.85°EPlum Brook Shale — 41.00°N, 83.00°WSalthill Cap Beds — 53.87°N, 2.40°WCedar Valley — 42.31°N, 92.00°WPilton Mudstone — 51.13°N, 4.24°W

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The named rock units Megistocrinus 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.

Megistocrinus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Megistocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

230 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Megistocrinus, 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 17 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 content2

Picture of Megistocrinus

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
MGRRE
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itPeriechocrininae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Owen and Shumard 1852)