Pachylocrinidae

Plummericrinus Moore & Laudon, 1943, a relative of Pachylocrinidae — not Pachylocrinidae itself

Not Pachylocrinidae. This is Plummericrinus Moore & Laudon, 1943, a relative — both are Pachylocrinidae.

Wagner, Steve · CC BY 4.0 · 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
ApographiocrinoideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cladida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cladida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cladida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 283.3 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 31 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 26 of 31 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 31 occurrencesPermian374–371 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences371–368 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences368–365 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences365–362 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences362–359 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences359–355 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences355–352 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences352–349 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences349–346 Mya — about 1 occurrence346–343 Mya — about 7 occurrences343–340 Mya — about 6 occurrences340–337 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences325–322 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences322–318 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences306–303 Mya — about 8 occurrences300–297 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences297–294 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–288 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences288–285 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences285–282 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences358.86 Mya290.1 Mya374 Mya282 Mya

31 occurrences of Pachylocrinidae on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

31 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

13 formations

Muldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WMuldraugh — 40.06°N, 86.90°WEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.25°WBarnsdall — 36.41°N, 96.24°WBarnsdall — 36.75°N, 96.06°WBarnsdall — 36.92°N, 95.90°WStanton — 41.02°N, 96.19°WStanton — 37.22°N, 95.83°WStanton — 37.70°N, 95.68°WBird Spring — 36.70°N, 114.42°WHongguleleng — 46.75°N, 86.14°EBanff — 52.25°N, 117.25°WBorden — 37.70°N, 85.87°WBond — 40.78°N, 88.68°WBloyd — 34.57°N, 96.59°WTaiyuan — 36.08°N, 114.11°ESamnuuruul — 45.27°N, 91.50°ECuyahoga — 41.25°N, 81.64°W

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

Pachylocrinidae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Pachylocrinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

459 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Pachylocrinidae, 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

14 references

Each of the 31 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. 2 further references are 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 content1

Picture of Plummericrinus Moore & Laudon, 1943

Source
GBIF
Credit
Wagner, Steve
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pachylocrinidae was found in Sketchfab.

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 itApographiocrinoidea through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kirk 1942