Synarmocrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CromyocrinidaePBDB
- 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 9.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 312.8 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 286 Mya.
6 occurrences of Synarmocrinus 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
6 occurrences- Carboniferous83%
- Permian18%
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
6 formations
- Naco Formation1
- Minturn Formation1
- Bird Spring Formation1
- Kanwaka Formation · Shawnee Group1
- Plattsburg Formation · Lansing Group1
- Oquirrh Formation1
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The named rock units Synarmocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Synarmocrinus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Synarmocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Dicromyocrinus2 sites
- Aesiocrinus secundus1 site
- Aglaocrinus magnus1 site
- Archaeocidaris1 site
- Cymbiocrinus anatonus1 site
- Cymbiocrinus cuneatus1 site
- Delocrinus1 site
- Delocrinus vulgatus1 site
- Endelocrinus1 site
- Endelocrinus matheri1 site
- Globocrinus bulbus1 site
- Goleocrinus1 site
- Goleocrinus vadosus1 site
- Graffhamicrinus magnijkus1 site
- Hypselocrinus cavus1 site
- Hypselocrinus defendus1 site
- Hypselocrinus superus1 site
- Paradelocrinus1 site
- Sublobalocrinus1 site
- Ulocrinus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Synarmocrinus, 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
5 references- Taphonomic Analysis and Systematic Descriptions of Some Late Pennsylvanian and Early Permian Crinoids from Southeastern Nebraska, Eastern Kansas and Southwestern Iowa2
- The first Pennsylvanian batocrinid and other new echinoderms from the Minturn Formation of central Colorado1
- New crinoids from the Naco Formation (Middle Pennsylvanian) of Arizona and a revision of the Family Cromyocrinidae1
- Early Pennsylvanian crinoids from the south central Wasatch Mountains of central Utah1
- New Pennsylvanian crinoids from Clark County, Nevada1
Each of the 6 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Synarmocrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Synarmocrinus 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 itCromyocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lane 1964