Barycrinus

Barycrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyathoformesPBDB
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 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 129 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 129 of 129 occurrencesCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 6 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 8 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 8 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 8 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 14 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 19 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 19 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 15 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 12 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 12 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351.9 Mya330.3 Mya359.6 Mya322.7 Mya

129 occurrences of Barycrinus 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

129 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

10 formations

Fort Payne — 36.93°N, 84.97°WFort Payne — 36.71°N, 85.48°WFort Payne — 36.95°N, 85.01°WFort Payne — 36.75°N, 85.15°WFort Payne — 36.78°N, 85.10°WFort Payne — 36.72°N, 85.36°WFort Payne — 36.54°N, 85.13°WFort Payne — 35.12°N, 87.44°WFort Payne — 36.56°N, 85.21°WFort Payne — 36.96°N, 85.07°WEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.25°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WFort Payne Chert — 36.92°N, 84.96°WFort Payne Chert — 36.72°N, 85.45°WFort Payne Chert — 36.95°N, 84.98°WFort Payne Chert — 36.86°N, 85.13°WMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WMuldraugh — 40.06°N, 86.90°WBorden — 38.50°N, 85.92°WBorden — 38.04°N, 85.72°WBorden — 38.08°N, 85.71°WBorden — 37.70°N, 85.87°WBorden — 38.29°N, 83.32°WSalem Limestone — 37.80°N, 85.80°WSalem Limestone — 37.18°N, 85.32°WSalem Limestone — 37.19°N, 85.37°WSalem Limestone — 37.05°N, 85.05°WSalem Limestone — 38.06°N, 85.98°WCarwood — 38.50°N, 85.83°WCarwood — 38.32°N, 85.90°WNew Providence Shale — 38.50°N, 85.92°WRedoak Hollow — 34.37°N, 97.34°WRockford Limestone — 38.48°N, 85.75°W

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The named rock units Barycrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Barycrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Barycrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

561 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Barycrinus, 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

15 references

Each of the 129 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. 3 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Barycrinus

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
MSU SEES
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itCyathoformes through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meeke and Worthen 1868