Trophocrinus

Trophocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AllagecrinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Disparida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Disparida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Disparida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 346.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 339.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferous359–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences357–357 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences355–355 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences353–353 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences351.9 Mya346.7 Mya359.4 Mya339.4 Mya

5 occurrences of Trophocrinus 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

5 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

Chouteau — 38.83°N, 92.40°WChouteau — 39.05°N, 92.27°WRockford Limestone — 38.48°N, 85.75°WBorden — 36.44°N, 88.06°WFern Glen — 38.33°N, 90.37°W

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

Trophocrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Trophocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

118 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Trophocrinus, 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

Each of the 5 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 Trophocrinus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Trophocrinus 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 itAllagecrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kirk 1930