Talarocrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DichocrinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Monobathrida
- Life habit
- upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Monobathrida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Monobathrida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 342.9 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Talarocrinus 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
4 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
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The named rock units Talarocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Talarocrinus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Talarocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Pentremites2 sites
- Agassizocrinus1 site
- Amaurotoma leavenworthana1 site
- Amplexizaphrentis1 site
- Anematina proutana1 site
- Archaeocidaris1 site
- Batocrinus1 site
- Batostomella1 site
- Beecheria1 site
- Brachythyris1 site
- Bulimorpha bulimiformis1 site
- Bulimorpha elongata1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Cladochonus beecheri1 site
- Cleiothyridina hirsuta1 site
- Composita trinuclea1 site
- Cyathaxonia1 site
- Cypricardinia1 site
- Dielasma1 site
- Eridopora1 site
- Eumetria1 site
- Fenestella1 site
- Fenestella serratula1 site
- Fistulipora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Talarocrinus, 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
3 references- A crinoid faunule from the Newman Formation (Mississippi) of eastern Tennessee2
- Paratalarocrinus, a new camerate genus from the Upper Mississippian of Virginia1
- Paleontology and Lithology of the Salem Limestone (Mississippian) in South-Central Kentucky1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Talarocrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Talarocrinus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 itDichocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wachsmuth and Springer 1881