Calycanthocrinus
Searched as Calycanthocrinus decadactylus lata. The Paleobiology Database treats Calycanthocrinus as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PisocrinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Disparida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Disparida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Disparida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 399.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Calycanthocrinus 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
1 occurrences- Devonian100%
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 Calycanthocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Calycanthocrinus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Calycanthocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Acanthocrinus1 site
- Acanthotriletes1 site
- Anetoceras arduennense1 site
- Archeocydippida hunsrueckiana1 site
- Arthroacantha1 site
- Arthrophyllum1 site
- Bactrocrinites1 site
- Bactrocrinites jaekeli1 site
- Bathericrinus semipinnulatus1 site
- Boletzkya1 site
- Boletzyka hunsrueckensis n. sp.1 site
- Boletzyka longa n. gen. n. sp.1 site
- Buchiola1 site
- Calamospora1 site
- Choia1 site
- Chotecops1 site
- Codiacrinus1 site
- Conularia1 site
- Ctenodonta cf. subcontracta1 site
- Culicocrinus1 site
- Dacryoconarida1 site
- Densosporites1 site
- Diaphanospora riciniata1 site
- Dictyotriletes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Calycanthocrinus, 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 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Calycanthocrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Calycanthocrinus 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 itPisocrinidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Follmann 1887