Cheirocrinus leuchtenbergi

Cheirocrinus leuchtenbergi

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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 least 6.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 464.3 Mya to 458 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.1 Mya to 453.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 9 of 9 occurrencesOrdovician470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences464.3 Mya458 Mya469.6 Mya453.4 Mya

9 occurrences of Cheirocrinus leuchtenbergi 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

9 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

5 formations

Asaphus Limestone — 58.38°N, 14.70°EAsaphus Limestone — 58.56°N, 13.42°EHolen — 58.56°N, 15.28°EHolen Limestone — 58.55°N, 15.37°EDalby Limestone — 60.92°N, 15.09°EDalby — 60.92°N, 15.09°E

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The named rock units Cheirocrinus leuchtenbergi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cheirocrinus leuchtenbergi and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cheirocrinus leuchtenbergi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Cheirocrinus leuchtenbergi, 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

1 reference

Each of the 9 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 Cheirocrinus leuchtenbergi

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Cheirocrinus leuchtenbergi 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 itCheirocrinus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Angelin 1899)