Rhaphanocrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- crinoidPBDB
- Sits inside
- RhodocrinitidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Diplobathrida
- Life habit
- upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Diplobathrida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Diplobathrida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 600 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
12 occurrences of Rhaphanocrinus 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
12 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
8 formations
- Wise Lake Formation · Galena Group3
- Grand Detour Formation · Platteville Group2
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group2
- Liberty Formation1
- Platteville Formation1
- Prosser Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Rhaphanocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rhaphanocrinus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Rhaphanocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
132 taxa- Cremacrinus10 sites
- Cupulocrinus9 sites
- Porocrinus9 sites
- Carabocrinus8 sites
- Abludoglyptocrinus charltoni7 sites
- Carabocrinus radiatus7 sites
- Ectenocrinus simplex7 sites
- Quienquecaudex springeri7 sites
- Tanaocystis7 sites
- Cyclocystoides6 sites
- Cyclocystoides halli6 sites
- Merocrinus6 sites
- Dendrocrinus5 sites
- Edrioaster bigsbyi5 sites
- Glyptocrinus5 sites
- Glyptocystites5 sites
- <Cincinnaticrinid>4 sites
- Astrocystites4 sites
- Eumorphocystis4 sites
- Promopalaeaster4 sites
- Reteocrinus4 sites
- <Archaeocrinid>3 sites
- <Camerate>3 sites
- Abludoglyptocrinus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Rhaphanocrinus, 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- Upper Mississippi Valley Champlainian and Cincinnatian echinoderms9
- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America1
- Middle Ordovician echinoderms from northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin1
- The fossil fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region1
Each of the 12 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 content0
No picture of Rhaphanocrinus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Rhaphanocrinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itRhodocrinitidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wachsmuth and Springer 1885