Pachylocrinus

Pachylocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PachylocrinidaePBDB
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 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 346.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 339.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 19 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 17 of 19 occurrencesCarboniferous373–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences371–369 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences352–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 2 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 2 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 2 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 2 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 2 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 2 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences358.86 Mya346.7 Mya372.8 Mya339.3 Mya

19 occurrences of Pachylocrinus 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

19 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

7 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°WHongguleleng — 46.75°N, 86.14°EBanff — 52.25°N, 117.25°WBorden — 37.70°N, 85.87°WSamnuuruul — 45.27°N, 91.50°ECuyahoga — 41.25°N, 81.64°W

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

Pachylocrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Pachylocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

339 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Pachylocrinus, 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

9 references

Each of the 19 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 Pachylocrinus

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iDigBio
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Commercial use
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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 itPachylocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wachsmuth and Springer 1879