Chinacrinus
No picture of Chinacrinus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Chinacrinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlatycrinitidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Monobathrida
- Life habit
- upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Monobathrida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Monobathrida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Chinacrinus 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
9 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Chinacrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chinacrinus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Chinacrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Eutaxocrinus3 sites
- Eutaxocrinus chinaensis3 sites
- Houiblastus3 sites
- Decadocrinus2 sites
- Julieticrinus romeo2 sites
- Junggaroblastus hoxtolgayensis2 sites
- Pachylocrinus2 sites
- Parisocrinus nodosus2 sites
- Uyguroblastus conicus2 sites
- Abactinocrinus1 site
- Abactinocrinus devonicus1 site
- Actinocrinites1 site
- Actinocrinites zhaoae1 site
- Agathocrinus1 site
- Amadeusicrinus subpentagonalis1 site
- Anamesocrinus1 site
- Athabascocrinus orientale1 site
- Breimeriblastus gracilis1 site
- Breimeriblastus pyramidalis1 site
- Bridgerocrinus discus1 site
- Carpocrinacea1 site
- Cestocrinus1 site
- Cladida1 site
- Deltacrinus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Chinacrinus, 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
3 references- Echinoderm faunas of the Hongguleleng Formation, Late Devonian (Famennian), Xinjiang-Uyger Autonomous Region, People''s Republic of China6
- A quadrupling of Famennian pelmatozoan diversity: new Late Devonian blastoids and crinoids from northwest China2
- Famennian crinoids and blastoids (Echinodermata) from Mongolia1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Chinacrinus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Chinacrinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itPlatycrinitidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lane and Waters 1997