Bromidocrinus nodosus

Sprinkle, James · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BromidocrinusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Diplobathrida
- Life habit
- upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Diplobathrida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Diplobathrida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Bromidocrinus nodosus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Bromidocrinus nodosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bromidocrinus nodosus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Bromidocrinus nodosus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Ancistrorhyncha1 site
- Apodasmocrinus1 site
- Archaeocrinus1 site
- Astrocystites1 site
- Bistomiacystis1 site
- Bromidocystis bassleri1 site
- Camerate sp.1 site
- Carabocrinus1 site
- Cleiocrinus1 site
- Cyathocystis1 site
- Cyclocystoides1 site
- Dactylogonia1 site
- Dactylogonia sculpturata1 site
- Dendrocrinus1 site
- Diabolocrinus1 site
- Doliocrinus1 site
- Edriophus1 site
- Eopinnacrinus1 site
- Eumorphocystis1 site
- Foerstediscus1 site
- Glyptocystella1 site
- Glyptorthis uncinata1 site
- Hesperocystis1 site
- Hesperocystis deckeri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Bromidocrinus nodosus, 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
2 referencesEach 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 Bromidocrinus nodosus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Sprinkle, James
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bromidocrinus nodosus 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 itBromidocrinus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kolata 1982