Orthocrinus

Orthocrinus

Martin Evans · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthocrinidaePBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 399.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Devonian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesDevonian414–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences398–398 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences396–396 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences394–394 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410.62 Mya399.5 Mya413.5 Mya393 Mya

4 occurrences of Orthocrinus 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

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

4 formations

Hunsrueck Slate — 49.87°N, 7.38°EArmorique — 48.33°N, 4.45°WAguión — 43.58°N, 5.98°WOrthocrinus — 51.04°N, 7.86°E

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

Orthocrinus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Orthocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

54 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Orthocrinus, 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

4 references

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 content1

Picture of Orthocrinus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Martin Evans
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOrthocrinidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jaekel 1895