Protaxocrinus elegans

No picture of Protaxocrinus elegans 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 Protaxocrinus elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtaxocrinusPBDB
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 most 7.6 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 445.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Protaxocrinus elegans on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

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

Ottawa — 45.46°N, 75.68°W

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

Protaxocrinus elegans and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Protaxocrinus elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Protaxocrinus elegans, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Protaxocrinus elegans 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 Protaxocrinus elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protaxocrinus elegans 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 itProtaxocrinus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1857)