Paragassizocrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AgassizocrinidaePBDB
- 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 318.6 Mya to 306 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 303.7 Mya.
9 occurrences of Paragassizocrinus 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
9 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Breathitt Formation4
- Stanton Formation · Lansing Group3
- Golf Course Formation · Dornick Hills Group1
- Four Corners Formation · Breathitt Group1
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The named rock units Paragassizocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paragassizocrinus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Paragassizocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
87 taxa- Apographiocrinus2 sites
- Delocrinus2 sites
- Exocrinus2 sites
- Acanthopecten1 site
- Amphiscapha catilloides1 site
- Anthracospirifer1 site
- Astartella concentrica1 site
- Beecheria1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Cibolocrinus1 site
- Cladochonus1 site
- Cleiothyridina1 site
- Composita1 site
- Composita subtilita1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Crurithyris planoconvexa1 site
- Cymatospira montfortianus1 site
- Cymbiocrinidae1 site
- Cypricardinia1 site
- Derbyia crassa1 site
- Desmoinesia nana1 site
- Diphuicrinus1 site
- Dunbarella1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Paragassizocrinus, 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
5 references- Filtration models, guilds, and biofacies: crinoid paleoecology of the Stanton Formation (Upper Pennsylvanian), Midcontinent, North America3
- Lower Pennsylvanian Fauna from eastern Kentucky; Part 2, crinoids3
- An edrioasteroid-dominated echinoderm assemblage from a lower Pennsylvanian marine conglomerate in Oklahoma1
- Macrofauna and fossil preservation in the Magoffin marine zone, Pennsylvanian Breathitt Formation of eastern Kentucky USA1
- Lower Pennsylvanian (Morrowan) crinoids from Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas1
Each of the 9 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 Paragassizocrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- 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 itAgassizocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moore and Plummer 1940