Cheirocrinus constrictus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CheirocrinusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhombifera
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Rhombifera
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rhombifera
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhombifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 7.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cheirocrinus constrictus 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
2 formations
- Fosses Formation1
- South Threave Formation · Drummock Group1
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The named rock units Cheirocrinus constrictus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cheirocrinus constrictus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cheirocrinus constrictus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Actinodiscus wrighti1 site
- Anulocrinus1 site
- Arjamannia thraivensis1 site
- Aulechinus1 site
- Boucotspira ordovicus1 site
- Bucanopsis nicoli1 site
- Carcassonnella multilineata1 site
- Cataschisma convexa1 site
- Cheirocrinus dilatatus1 site
- Clisospira reticulata1 site
- Cnemidactis girvanensis1 site
- Cothurnocystis elizae1 site
- Cymbularia drummuckensis1 site
- Cyrtolites thraivensis1 site
- Dendrocrinus1 site
- Dendrocystoides1 site
- Drepanaster grayae1 site
- Ectinechinus1 site
- Ectomaria orientalis1 site
- Encrinaster grayae1 site
- Eocicerocrinus1 site
- Euzonosoma orbitoides1 site
- Girvanolithes thraivensis1 site
- Grandostoma grande1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cheirocrinus constrictus, 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- Revision of the Caradocian-Ashgillian cystoid fauna of Belgium with notes on isolated pelmatozoan stem fragments1
- VI - Caradocian Cystidea from Girvan1
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 Cheirocrinus constrictus 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 Cheirocrinus constrictus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cheirocrinus constrictus 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 itCheirocrinus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bather 1913