Reteocrinus alveolatus
No picture of Reteocrinus alveolatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Reteocrinus alveolatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ReteocrinusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Life habit
- upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 7.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Reteocrinus alveolatus 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Bobcaygeon-Verulam Formation · Simcoe Group2
- Bobcaygeon Formation · Simcoe Group1
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The named rock units Reteocrinus alveolatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Reteocrinus alveolatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Reteocrinus alveolatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Grenprisia3 sites
- Anomalocrinus astrictus2 sites
- Anthroosasterias huxleyi2 sites
- Carabocrinus2 sites
- Cincinnaticrinus varibrachialus2 sites
- Cleiocrinus2 sites
- Cupulocrinus humilis2 sites
- Daedalocrinus bellevillensis2 sites
- Hybocrinus tumidus2 sites
- Illemocrinus2 sites
- Konieckicrinus josephi2 sites
- Praecupulocrinus2 sites
- Praecupulocrinus conjugans2 sites
- Protaxocrinus laevis2 sites
- Reteocrinus stellaris2 sites
- Algae1 site
- Amygdalocystites1 site
- Archaeocrinus1 site
- Archaeocrinus maraensis1 site
- Archaeocrinus sundayae1 site
- Arthropoda1 site
- Astrocystites1 site
- Bumastus1 site
- Carabocrinus radiatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Reteocrinus alveolatus, 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
2 references- An echinoderm Lagerstätte from the Upper Ordovician (Katian), Ontario: taxonomic re-evaluation and description of new dicyclic camerate crinoids2
- A new marrellomorph arthropod from southern Ontario: a rare case of soft-tissue preservation on a Late Ordovician open marine shelf1
Each of the 3 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 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 Reteocrinus alveolatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Reteocrinus alveolatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Reteocrinus alveolatus 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 itReteocrinus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller and Gurley 1894