Spaniocrinus

Spaniocrinus

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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 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 4 occurrencesPermian325–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences322–320 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences320–318 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–279 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences277–274 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences258–255 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences318.6 Mya259.857 Mya325 Mya253 Mya

4 occurrences of Spaniocrinus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

4 formations

Cibolo — 29.85°N, 104.32°WCondamine — 28.38°S, 152.14°EBloyd — 34.57°N, 96.59°WJulfa — 38.98°N, 45.53°E

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The named rock units Spaniocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Spaniocrinus and its relatives

Permian

Where Spaniocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

37 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Spaniocrinus, 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 content1

Picture of Spaniocrinus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Spaniocrinus 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 itArticuliformes through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Strimple 1971