Ristnacrinus marinus

Öpik, Armin · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RistnacrinusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Disparida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Disparida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Disparida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 456.8 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458 Mya to 449.9 Mya.
33 occurrences of Ristnacrinus marinus 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
33 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
7 formations
- Aluvere Formation5
- Kahula Formation3
- Madise Formation3
- Pagari Formation3
- Keila Formation3
- Vasalemma Formation1
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The named rock units Ristnacrinus marinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ristnacrinus marinus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ristnacrinus marinus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
103 taxa- Virucrinus kegelensis27 sites
- Mastopora concava22 sites
- Saukrodictya20 sites
- Onniella17 sites
- Cremnorthis15 sites
- Porambonites15 sites
- Sowerbyella15 sites
- Orthisocrania14 sites
- Schizocrinus13 sites
- Neoplatystrophia lynx12 sites
- Baltocrinus sp.11 sites
- Bilobia musca10 sites
- Hemicosmites10 sites
- Cornulites9 sites
- Cyrtonotella9 sites
- Pyritonema9 sites
- Trigonocyclicus vajgatschensis8 sites
- Vellamo8 sites
- Cyclocyclicus6 sites
- Platystrophia dentata6 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) trivia6 sites
- Hoplocrinus5 sites
- Clitambonites4 sites
- Cyclopentagonalis guttaeformis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Ristnacrinus marinus, 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
6 references- Lithology and Fauna of the Caradoc series type sections in North Estonia18
- New data on the distribution of brachiopods in the Johvi Stage of North Estonia9
- The Subdivision of the Ordovician in the Berzini boring (South-East Latvia)3
- Iocrinid Crinoids from the Ordovician of the Baltic Region, Estonia1
- Oandu stage (Caradoc) in central North Estonia1
- Locality 2 : 4 Ristna Cliff1
Each of the 33 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 Ristnacrinus marinus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Öpik, Armin
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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 itRistnacrinus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Opik 1934