Scytalocrinidae

Scytalocrinidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScytalocrinoideaPBDB
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 128 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 115 occurrencesDevonian — about 7 of 115 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 100 of 115 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 8 of 115 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 115 occurrences423–417 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences417–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–382 Mya — about 2 occurrences382–376 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences376–371 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences371–365 Mya — about 1 occurrence365–359 Mya — about 2 occurrences359–353 Mya — about 10 occurrences353–347 Mya — about 4 occurrences347–342 Mya — about 19 occurrences342–336 Mya — about 7 occurrences336–330 Mya — about 30 occurrences330–324 Mya — about 2 occurrences324–318 Mya — about 5 occurrences318–313 Mya — about 1 occurrence313–307 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences307–301 Mya — about 19 occurrences301–295 Mya — about 1 occurrence295–289 Mya — about 3 occurrences289–283 Mya — about 1 occurrence283–278 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences278–272 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences260–254 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences254–249 Mya — about 1 occurrence382.31 Mya254.14 Mya423 Mya249 Mya

115 occurrences of Scytalocrinidae 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

115 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

33 formations

Bangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.25°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WMuldraugh — 40.06°N, 86.90°WStanton — 41.02°N, 96.19°WStanton — 37.22°N, 95.83°WStanton — 38.96°N, 94.97°WStanton — 37.70°N, 95.68°WStanton — 37.13°N, 95.83°WLower Limestone — 56.10°N, 3.18°WLower Limestone — 56.12°N, 3.47°WLower Limestone — 55.78°N, 3.33°WLower Limestone — 55.08°N, 2.90°WLower Limestone — 56.05°N, 3.40°WBarnsdall — 36.41°N, 96.24°WBarnsdall — 36.92°N, 95.90°WBarnsdall — 36.91°N, 95.96°WBarnsdall — 36.75°N, 96.06°WOquirrh — 40.33°N, 111.60°WBorden — 37.70°N, 85.87°WCuyahoga — 41.25°N, 81.64°WCuyahoga — 41.02°N, 82.08°WHongguleleng — 46.75°N, 86.14°EHongguleleng — 46.75°N, 86.27°EMcCraney Limestone — 39.76°N, 91.26°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.87°N, 86.62°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.83°N, 86.62°WBond — 40.78°N, 88.68°WWassonville — 41.20°N, 92.10°WWassonville — 41.37°N, 91.95°WSaiwan — 21.03°N, 57.60°ESaiwan — 20.87°N, 57.60°EChhidru — 32.50°N, 72.20°EChhidru — 32.41°N, 72.10°EBloyd — 35.62°N, 95.17°WHutk — 30.37°N, 56.77°EDyer — 39.77°N, 107.35°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 78.65°WBanff — 52.25°N, 117.25°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WMaynes Creek — 42.00°N, 92.78°WFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°W

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The named rock units Scytalocrinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scytalocrinidae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Scytalocrinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

898 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 94 sites for Scytalocrinidae, 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

36 references

Each of the 115 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. 24 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 content1

Picture of Scytalocrinidae

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

No 3D scan of Scytalocrinidae 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 itScytalocrinoidea through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moore and Laudon 1943