Clidochirus

Clidochirus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IcthyocrinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Sagenocrinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Sagenocrinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Sagenocrinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 3 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 3 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 3 occurrencesDevonian454–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445.2 Mya419.62 Mya453.6 Mya412.2 Mya

3 occurrences of Clidochirus 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

3 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

Keyser Limestone — 39.45°N, 78.97°WVaureal — 49.40°N, 62.19°W

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The named rock units Clidochirus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clidochirus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Clidochirus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

46 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Clidochirus, 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 3 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 Clidochirus

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

No 3D scan of Clidochirus 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 itIcthyocrinidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Angelin 1878