Melocrinus

Melocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MelocrinitidaePBDB
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 most 61 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesDevonian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 3 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences379–377 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences377–374 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences374–372 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences372–370 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences370–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences421 Mya358 Mya

3 occurrences of Melocrinus 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

3 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

2 formations

Skaneateles — 42.37°N, 75.33°WOlentangy Shale — 40.00°N, 83.00°W

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

Melocrinus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Melocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Melocrinus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Melocrinus

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itMelocrinitidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1836