Ophiocrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhodocrinitidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Diplobathrida
- Life habit
- upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Diplobathrida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Diplobathrida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 399.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 387.95 Mya.
7 occurrences of Ophiocrinus 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
7 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
- Gydo Formation · Bokkeveld Group4
- Gamka Formation · Bokkeveld Group1
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The named rock units Ophiocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ophiocrinus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Ophiocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
125 taxa- Australocoelia5 sites
- Australospirifer5 sites
- Crinoidea5 sites
- Anchiopella4 sites
- Burmeisteria4 sites
- Conularia4 sites
- Nuculites4 sites
- Palaeoneilo4 sites
- Platyostoma4 sites
- Pragozyga zwartbergense4 sites
- Schellwienella4 sites
- Tentaculites4 sites
- Ambocoelia3 sites
- Asterozoa3 sites
- Bivalvia3 sites
- Burmeisteria (Digonus) noticus3 sites
- Grammysia3 sites
- Metacryphaeus (Metacryphaeus) caffer3 sites
- Notiochonetes3 sites
- Nuculana3 sites
- Orbiculoidea3 sites
- Orthis3 sites
- Orthoceras3 sites
- Orthotheca3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ophiocrinus, 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
3 references- Preliminary catalogue and report on the biostratigraphy and palaeogeographic distribution of the Bokkeveld fauna4
- Early Devonian echinoderms from South Africa2
- Silurian and Devonian crinoids from central Victoria1
Each of the 7 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Ophiocrinus 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 Ophiocrinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ophiocrinus 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 itRhodocrinitidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Salter 1856