Sciadiocrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnobasicrinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cladida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cladida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cladida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 287.6 Mya.
6 occurrences of Sciadiocrinus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
6 occurrences- Carboniferous88%
- Permian12%
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
5 formations
- Bloyd Formation2
- Bond Formation · McLeansboro Group1
- Atoka Formation1
- Burgner Formation1
- Kanwaka Formation1
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The named rock units Sciadiocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sciadiocrinus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Sciadiocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Allosocrinus bronaughi2 sites
- Adacrinus edema1 site
- Aesiocrinus detrusus1 site
- Affinocrinus1 site
- Affinocrinus progressus1 site
- Aglaocrinus compactus1 site
- Alcimocrinus1 site
- Anchicrinus1 site
- Anchicrinus planulatus1 site
- Anchicrinus rugosus1 site
- Anobasicrinus brevis1 site
- Apographiocrinus typicalis1 site
- Belemnospongia parmula1 site
- Brabeocrinus christinae1 site
- Calliasterella americana1 site
- Chlidonocrinus1 site
- Cibolocrinus tumidus1 site
- Clathrocrinus1 site
- Clathrocrinus clathratus1 site
- Clathrocrinus clinatus1 site
- Contocrinus coupi1 site
- Delocrinus vulgatus1 site
- Dichocrinus nola1 site
- Dicromyocrinus optimus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Sciadiocrinus, 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- Middle Pennsylvanian (Atokan) crinoids from Oklahoma and Missouri2
- Lower Pennsylvanian (Morrowan) crinoids from Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas2
- Taphonomic Analysis and Systematic Descriptions of Some Late Pennsylvanian and Early Permian Crinoids from Southeastern Nebraska, Eastern Kansas and Southwestern Iowa1
- Crinoids of the LaSalle Limestone (Pennsylvanian) of Illinois1
Each of the 6 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Sciadiocrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Sciadiocrinus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itAnobasicrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moore and Plummer 1937