Crepidosoma

No picture of Crepidosoma 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 Crepidosoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EncrinasterinaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ophiuroidea

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 410.62 Mya.

Silurian — about 3 of 4 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 4 occurrencesDevonian439–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432.9 Mya413.02 Mya439.2 Mya410.1 Mya

4 occurrences of Crepidosoma on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

4 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

Reservoir — 55.80°N, 3.33°WKilbride — 53.56°N, 9.66°W

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The named rock units Crepidosoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Crepidosoma and its relatives

Silurian

Where Crepidosoma and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

31 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Crepidosoma, 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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 content0

No picture of Crepidosoma 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 Crepidosoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Crepidosoma 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 itEncrinasterinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spencer 1930