Nucleocrinus elegans
No picture of Nucleocrinus elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nucleocrinus elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NucleocrinusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Nucleocrinus elegans 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
4 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
- Silica Formation3
- Thunder Bay Limestone Formation · Traverse Group1
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The named rock units Nucleocrinus elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nucleocrinus elegans and its relatives
DevonianWhere Nucleocrinus elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Acanthoclema3 sites
- Athyris3 sites
- Cornellites3 sites
- Fenestrellina3 sites
- Hederella3 sites
- Pholidostrophia3 sites
- Planalveolitella3 sites
- Protoleptostrophia perplana3 sites
- Rhipidomella vanuxemi3 sites
- Stictoporina3 sites
- Streblotrypa3 sites
- Sulcoretepora3 sites
- Arthroacantha2 sites
- Aulocystis2 sites
- Corocrinus2 sites
- Devonochonetes coronatus2 sites
- Eldredgeops rana2 sites
- Euryocrinus2 sites
- Fistulipora2 sites
- Helopora2 sites
- Intrapora2 sites
- Leioclema2 sites
- Mucrospirifer2 sites
- Proctothylacocrinus longus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Nucleocrinus elegans, 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
2 references- Strata and megafossils of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation3
- Bibliographic and faunal index of Paleozoic pelmatozoan echinoderms1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Nucleocrinus elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nucleocrinus elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nucleocrinus elegans 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNucleocrinus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1842