Scyphocrinites

Scyphocrinites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScyphocrinitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
upper-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 76 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 40 of 76 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 35 of 76 occurrencesDevonian471–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences424–421 Mya — about 22 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 21 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 11 occurrences416–413 Mya — about 11 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 2 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences408–405 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences405–402 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences400–397 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences458.2 Mya413.02 Mya471 Mya392 Mya

76 occurrences of Scyphocrinites on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

76 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

19 formations

Pozary — 49.93°N, 14.18°EPozary — 50.08°N, 14.47°EPozary — 49.90°N, 14.02°EPozary — 49.93°N, 14.13°EPozary — 50.03°N, 14.32°ELochkov — 49.93°N, 14.18°EOued Ali — 29.00°N, 3.00°WOued Ali — 29.55°N, 2.13°WOued Ali — 29.75°N, 2.28°WOued Ali — 29.17°N, 3.25°WOued Ali — 30.02°N, 2.08°WLochkow — 49.93°N, 14.18°ELochkow — 49.90°N, 14.02°ELochkow — 50.03°N, 14.32°EDzwinogorod Beds — 49.08°N, 25.40°ETajna Beds — 49.08°N, 25.40°EFluminimaggiore — 39.32°N, 8.65°EFluminimaggiore — 39.50°N, 8.50°EHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WRoncelles — 48.83°N, 64.48°WBostów — 50.47°N, 21.08°EKotys Limestone — 49.93°N, 14.18°EManlius — 42.13°N, 73.93°WDecatur Limestone — 35.65°N, 88.13°WKeyser Limestone — 39.45°N, 78.97°WCarazo — 42.98°N, 0.90°WSeptatrypa Mound — 33.07°N, 5.60°WKoudiat ed Diab — 32.65°N, 7.75°WPridoli — 50.02°N, 14.38°EShihtien — 24.77°N, 99.15°E

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The named rock units Scyphocrinites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scyphocrinites and its relatives

Silurian

Where Scyphocrinites and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

615 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Scyphocrinites, 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

28 references

Each of the 76 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. 16 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Scyphocrinites

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itScyphocrinitidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zenker 1833