Sinoeocrinus lui
No picture of Sinoeocrinus lui was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sinoeocrinus lui, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SinoeocrinusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Sinoeocrinus
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Sinoeocrinus
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Sinoeocrinus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Eocrinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 506.5 Mya and 504.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Sinoeocrinus lui on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
2 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Sinoeocrinus lui has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sinoeocrinus lui and its relatives
CambrianWhere Sinoeocrinus lui and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Globoeocrinus globulus2 sites
- Naraoia2 sites
- Oryctocephalus indicus2 sites
- Balangicystis rotundus1 site
- Marrella1 site
- Microdictyon1 site
- Nisusia1 site
- Ottoia1 site
- Ursulinacaris grallae1 site
- Wiwaxia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sinoeocrinus lui, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
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No picture of Sinoeocrinus lui was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sinoeocrinus lui, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sinoeocrinus lui was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itSinoeocrinus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhao et al. 1994