Somphocrinus

No picture of Somphocrinus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access 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 Somphocrinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SomphocrinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Roveacrinida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Roveacrinida
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Roveacrinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 233.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 4 occurrencesLate Triassic252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247 Mya233.6 Mya252.4 Mya226.8 Mya

4 occurrences of Somphocrinus on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

4 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

3 formations

San Cassiano — 46.53°N, 11.42°EHallstatt — 47.65°N, 13.68°EVardebukta and Tillingodden — 77.70°N, 14.88°E

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The named rock units Somphocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Somphocrinus and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Somphocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

25 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Somphocrinus, 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

Each of the 4 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 content0

No picture of Somphocrinus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 Somphocrinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Somphocrinus 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 itSomphocrinidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peck 1943