Coeliocrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CercidocrinidaePBDB
- 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 53 million years on record.
The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 290.1 Mya.
2 occurrences of Coeliocrinus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous50%
- Permian50%
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 Coeliocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Coeliocrinus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Coeliocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Aorocrinus1 site
- Blairocrinus1 site
- Blothrocrinus1 site
- Cladida1 site
- Cyathocrinites iowensis1 site
- Derbyia haroubi1 site
- Dichocrinus1 site
- Halysiocrinus dactylus1 site
- Pachycyrtella omanensis1 site
- Platycrinites1 site
- Synbathocrinus1 site
- Texacrinus1 site
- Trigonotreta1 site
- Uperocrinus pyriformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Coeliocrinus, 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
2 references- Permian crinoids from the Saiwan and Khuff Formations, southeastern Oman1
- Crinoids from the Nada Member of the Borden Formation (Lower Mississippian) in eastern Kentucky1
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
Media content1
Picture of Coeliocrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Coeliocrinus 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 itCercidocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. White 1863