Cestocrinus

Cestocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EuspirocrinidaePBDB
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 6.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 351.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 342.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous373–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358.86 Mya351.9 Mya372.7 Mya342.3 Mya

2 occurrences of Cestocrinus on record. 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

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

Hongguleleng — 46.75°N, 86.14°EFort Payne — 36.94°N, 85.01°W

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The named rock units Cestocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cestocrinus, 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 references

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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Cestocrinus

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEuspirocrinidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kirk 1940