Cambrocrinus
No picture of Cambrocrinus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cambrocrinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AscocystitidaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Eocrinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 494.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cambrocrinus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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- Cambrian100%
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
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The named rock units Cambrocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cambrocrinus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Cambrocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Olenus2 sites
- Davidocinctus pembrokensis1 site
- Elliptocinctus barrandei1 site
- Homagnostus obesus1 site
- Obolus1 site
- Orusia lenticularis1 site
- Pembrocystis gallica1 site
- Protocystites1 site
- Protopeltura1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cambrocrinus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 references- The first Furongian (late Cambrian) echinoderm from the British Isles1
- Jednostki litostratygraficzne kambru i gornego prekambru Gor Swietokrzyskich [Cambrian and Upper Precambrian lithostratigraphic units in the Holy Cross Mountains]1
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. 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
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No picture of Cambrocrinus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cambrocrinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cambrocrinus 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 itAscocystitida through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Orlowski 1968