Siphonocrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LampterocrinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Diplobathrida
- Life habit
- upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Diplobathrida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Diplobathrida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
30 occurrences of Siphonocrinus 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
30 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Siphonocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Siphonocrinus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Siphonocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
405 taxa- Eucalyptocrinites22 sites
- Dimerocrinites18 sites
- Bryozoa15 sites
- Caryocrinites15 sites
- Gastropoda14 sites
- Periechocrinus14 sites
- Isorthis13 sites
- Calliocrinus12 sites
- Lampterocrinus12 sites
- Macrostylocrinus12 sites
- Marsupiocrinus12 sites
- Nautiloidea12 sites
- Rugosa12 sites
- Hedeina11 sites
- Lecanocrinus11 sites
- Plectatrypa11 sites
- Atrypa reticularis10 sites
- Bumastus10 sites
- Dalejina10 sites
- Platyceras10 sites
- Camerella9 sites
- Crotalocrinites9 sites
- Eospirifer9 sites
- Favosites9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Siphonocrinus, 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- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America18
- The Silurian (Wenlockian) reef fauna of Southeastern Wisconsin9
- Silurian brachiopod and related benthic communities from carbonate platform and mound environments of Iowa and surrounding areas2
- Hunton Group of the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma:1
Each of the 30 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 content1
Picture of Siphonocrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Siphonocrinus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLampterocrinidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1888