Parisocrinus

Parisocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EuspirocrinidaePBDB
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 98 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 346.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.6 Mya to 339.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 10 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 10 occurrencesDevonian — about 5 of 10 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 4 of 10 occurrencesCarboniferous452–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–444 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences418–414 Mya — about 1 occurrence414–410 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences376–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372–368 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences368–364 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences364–361 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences353–349 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences349–345 Mya — about 1 occurrence345–342 Mya — about 2 occurrences342–338 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences445.5 Mya346.7 Mya452 Mya338 Mya

10 occurrences of Parisocrinus 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

10 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

Edwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.25°WLochkov — 50.03°N, 14.33°ELochkov — 49.98°N, 14.18°EHongguleleng — 46.75°N, 86.27°EMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WFort Payne — 36.95°N, 85.01°WGeorgian Bay — 43.55°N, 79.65°WSamnuuruul — 45.27°N, 91.50°E

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

Parisocrinus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Parisocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

205 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Parisocrinus, 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

8 references

Each of the 10 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 Parisocrinus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Parisocrinus 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 itEuspirocrinidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wachsmuth and Springer 1880