Plummericrinus
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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 28 million years on record.
The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 283.3 Mya.
11 occurrences of Plummericrinus 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
11 occurrences- Carboniferous82%
- Permian18%
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
5 formations
- Barnsdall Formation · Lansing Group4
- Stanton Formation · Lansing Group3
- Bird Spring Formation2
- Bond Formation · McLeansboro Group1
- Bloyd Formation1
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The named rock units Plummericrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plummericrinus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Plummericrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
101 taxa- Pirasocrinidae8 sites
- Stellarocrinus8 sites
- Ampelocrinidae7 sites
- Cromyocrinidae7 sites
- Cymbiocrinidae7 sites
- Delocrinus7 sites
- Elibatocrinus7 sites
- Erisocrinus7 sites
- Exocrinus7 sites
- Exoriocrinus7 sites
- Scytalocrinidae7 sites
- Apographiocrinus6 sites
- Stenopecrinidae indet.6 sites
- Ulocrinus6 sites
- Cibolocrinus5 sites
- Glaukosocrinus5 sites
- Graffhamicrinus5 sites
- Kallimorphocrinus4 sites
- Laudonocrinidae4 sites
- Galateacrinus3 sites
- Paramphicrinus3 sites
- Terpnocrinus3 sites
- Euonychocrinus2 sites
- Graphiocrinidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Plummericrinus, 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
4 references- Filtration models, guilds, and biofacies: crinoid paleoecology of the Stanton Formation (Upper Pennsylvanian), Midcontinent, North America7
- New Permian crinoids from the Battleship Wash patch reef in southern Nevada2
- Lower Pennsylvanian (Morrowan) crinoids from Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas1
- Crinoids of the LaSalle Limestone (Pennsylvanian) of Illinois1
Each of the 11 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 Plummericrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Plummericrinus 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 itPachylocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moore and Laudon 1943