Pisocrinus sphericus
No picture of Pisocrinus sphericus 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 Pisocrinus sphericus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PisocrinusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pisocrinus
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Pisocrinus
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pisocrinus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 1.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 421.3 Mya and 419.62 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Pisocrinus sphericus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
1 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pisocrinus sphericus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pisocrinus sphericus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Pisocrinus sphericus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Bdellacoma vermiformis1 site
- Coccaster bulbiferus1 site
- Conchidium1 site
- Echinocystites1 site
- Eutaxocrinus maccoyanus1 site
- Furcaster leptosoma1 site
- Gissocrinus ludensis1 site
- Hapalocrinus quinquepennis1 site
- Lapworthura miltoni1 site
- Loriolaster1 site
- Mastigocrinus bravoniensis1 site
- Palaeodiscus1 site
- Palasterina antiqua1 site
- Rhopalocoma pyrotechnica1 site
- Sollasina woodwardi1 site
- Stuertzaster1 site
- Stuertzaster marstoni1 site
- Urasterella ruthveni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pisocrinus sphericus, 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 1 occurrence 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 Pisocrinus sphericus 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 Pisocrinus sphericus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pisocrinus sphericus 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 itPisocrinus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rowley 1904