Parulocrinus blairi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParulocrinusPBDB
- 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 most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 303.7 Mya and 287.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Parulocrinus blairi on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous30%
- Permian70%
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
2 formations
- Kanwaka Formation1
- Oread Formation · Shawnee Group1
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The named rock units Parulocrinus blairi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parulocrinus blairi and its relatives
PermianWhere Parulocrinus blairi and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Graffhamicrinus subcoronatus2 sites
- Adacrinus edema1 site
- Aesiocrinus detrusus1 site
- Aglaocrinus compactus1 site
- Allosocrinus bronaughi1 site
- Bathronocrinus wolfriverensis1 site
- Delocrinus vulgatus1 site
- Exocrinus multirami1 site
- Graffhamicrinus magnijkus1 site
- Plaxocrinus crassidiscus1 site
- Polusocrinus rosa1 site
- Sciadiocrinus humilis1 site
- Stellarocrinus stillativus1 site
- Vertigocrinus parilis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Parulocrinus blairi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Parulocrinus blairi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Parulocrinus blairi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parulocrinus blairi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itParulocrinus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Miller and Gurley 1893)