Protaxocrinus

Protaxocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TaxocrinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Taxocrinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Taxocrinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Taxocrinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 8 of 23 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 15 of 23 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 23 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 2 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 1 occurrence440–439 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 1 occurrence437–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–435 Mya — about 1 occurrence435–434 Mya — about 1 occurrence434–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence432–430 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449.6 Mya422.7 Mya453.5 Mya419 Mya

23 occurrences of Protaxocrinus 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

23 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

15 formations

Jupiter — 49.50°N, 63.30°WJupiter — 49.10°N, 61.70°WCabot Head — 43.14°N, 79.38°WPower Glen Shale — 43.00°N, 79.25°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 76.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 75.00°WSouth Threave — 55.29°N, 4.76°WOttawa — 45.46°N, 75.68°WBobcaygeon-Verulam — 44.57°N, 79.10°WBobcaygeon-Verulam — 44.53°N, 79.15°WFort Atkinson — 43.13°N, 91.88°WMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.18°EFort Atkinson Limestone — 42.00°N, 93.50°WKeyser Limestone — 39.45°N, 78.97°WWillowvale Shale — 43.07°N, 75.28°WMenier — 49.56°N, 63.35°WBecscie — 49.38°N, 62.22°W

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

Protaxocrinus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Protaxocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

333 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Protaxocrinus, 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

11 references

Each of the 23 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 Protaxocrinus

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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Protaxocrinus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Springer 1906