Aspidocrinus

Aspidocrinus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 6.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 413.02 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesDevonian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesDevonian420–420 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420.1 Mya412.5 Mya

2 occurrences of Aspidocrinus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

2 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

1 formation

Becraft Limestone — 42.25°N, 73.90°W

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The named rock units Aspidocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aspidocrinus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Aspidocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

28 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Aspidocrinus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 2 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 Aspidocrinus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Aspidocrinus 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 itCrinoidea through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

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