Scytalocrinus

Scytalocrinus is an extinct genus of crinoids.

Scytalocrinus

Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
ArticuliformesPBDB
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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 318.6 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 27 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 27 of 27 occurrencesCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences357–355 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences353–351 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 3 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 4 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 4 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 3 occurrences342–340 Mya — about 3 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences335–333 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences332–330 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences346.7 Mya323.4 Mya359.7 Mya317.8 Mya

27 occurrences of Scytalocrinus 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

27 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

8 formations

Muldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WMuldraugh — 40.06°N, 86.90°WBloyd — 35.94°N, 95.27°WBloyd — 35.62°N, 95.17°WBloyd — 35.75°N, 95.21°WFort Payne — 36.92°N, 85.01°WFort Payne — 36.78°N, 85.10°WEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.25°WBorden — 37.70°N, 85.87°WWassonville — 41.58°N, 91.33°WLower Limestone — 56.08°N, 3.17°WFort Payne Chert — 36.86°N, 85.13°W

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The named rock units Scytalocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scytalocrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Scytalocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

331 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Scytalocrinus, 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

11 references

Each of the 27 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 content2

Picture of Scytalocrinus

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

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not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Scytalocrinus decadactylus · KU:KUMIP:491797

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itArticuliformes through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wachsmuth and Springer 1880