Bourgueticrinus ellipticus

Bourgueticrinus ellipticus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BourgueticrinusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Comatulida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Comatulida
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Comatulida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Comatulida

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 29 of 29 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 29 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–83 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences81–81 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–66 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences83.6 Mya72.2 Mya86.2 Mya65.5 Mya

29 occurrences of Bourgueticrinus ellipticus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

29 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

2 formations

Ahlen — 51.75°N, 8.03°EGulpen — 50.73°N, 5.67°EGulpen — 50.75°N, 5.67°E

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The named rock units Bourgueticrinus ellipticus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bourgueticrinus ellipticus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Bourgueticrinus ellipticus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

93 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Bourgueticrinus ellipticus, 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

4 references

Each of the 29 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. 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 content1

Picture of Bourgueticrinus ellipticus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bourgueticrinus ellipticus 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 itBourgueticrinus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Miller 1821)