Zeacrinites

Zeacrinites

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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 6.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 326.9 Mya to 320 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.9 Mya to 318.7 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 11 of 11 occurrencesCarboniferous336–336 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences333–333 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences332–332 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 1 occurrence330–329 Mya — about 1 occurrence329–329 Mya — about 1 occurrence329–328 Mya — about 1 occurrence328–327 Mya — about 1 occurrence327–327 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences326.9 Mya320 Mya336.4 Mya318.2 Mya

11 occurrences of Zeacrinites 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

11 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

Glen Dean Limestone — 38.17°N, 86.57°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.10°N, 86.56°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.23°N, 86.47°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.87°N, 86.62°WGolconda — 38.66°N, 86.78°WGolconda — 38.30°N, 86.47°WSardar — 34.08°N, 56.73°ESardar — 33.38°N, 57.35°E

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

Zeacrinites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Zeacrinites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

45 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Zeacrinites, 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 11 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 Zeacrinites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Zeacrinites 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 CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Troost 1858